Can't help thinking if they wanted 30 pilots with 1000+ hours they should have just said so. Would still have had plenty of applicants.
If they have taken only 30 odd applicants, it's a bit heartless to build any hopes up in less experienced pilots thinking they might have a chance of gaining employment when in reality none existed.
I appreciate airlines like to test the market with all encompassing trawls such as this.
However, they would have known from the responses contained within the questionnaires the hours and experience of the applicants without putting so many through the online tests when there was no hope of subsequent employment.
This very Thread and the responses within it show how keen, hopeful, young pilots hang on every word - I did myself years ago.
Now to find it was all in vain leaves something of a bad taste in the mouth - in my opinion.
Not good
PR, again in my opinion, but the nature of the modern corporate beast.