Sorry john but we moved away from the safety thing a few posts back. It seems that in good ATC and ILS to ILS operations low hour guys are fine. What I'm saying is the argument for hiring them is b:'llsh@t.
Some people keep banging on how great they are because they haven't been tainted yet and other such nonsense. My argument is then why aren't all the non EU airlines who hire large amounts of expats not falling over themselves to hire 200 hour wonder kids from OAA?
I think the only people defending 200 hour kids are people who used to be 200 hour kids.
Funnily enough a previous poster wrote that he has only ever had problems with new hires from other airlines. All those "bad habits" you know. An acquaintance at a ME carrier said to me that the Easy/Ryan guys they get sometimes have problems themselves with transitioning to new SOPS!!! Who would believe it?