Originally Posted by
Proline21
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Many respected Airlines in Europe like Lufthansa, Air Berlin, KLM, Condor, Luxair, Austrian, Swiss, etc do it that way for ages so why not.
For the last 15 or so years the lowest accident rate per 100,000 hours of flying has been recorded by North American mainline airlines. The average
new hire to the RHS has 4000 + hrs and will probably come from a regional jet, or corporate jet command position. This is for an initial hire so to say that an European airline puppy mill 200 hr new hire is in any way comparable to that of a typical North American new hire is laughable.
That been said the legacy European carriers have had a long history of success with in house cadet programs. However the key difference is that those legacy carriers
ran their own cadet programs. Since the airline was paying the freight for all the training they culled all the less than exceptional cadets and so the product was of a uniformly high quality.
Now of course the airlines are sourcing all their new hires from third party airline puppy mills. Now money not ability is what matters, something that works for the bean counters but will inevitably end badly......