Sorry for bringing up an old thread:
Just read an interesting post in regards to the different opportunities between KA and CX.
What are the Recent Experience levels? Captain would have done 12-18 sectors per year as an FO in his last 5-8 years before the handful of sectors during the Command upgrade. FO during his 8 months of line flying between the JFO upgrade and the QL was lucky enough to get a sector every 2 months.
18 sectors per year as an FO in CX, is completed in just over a month in KA. A recent ATPL "cadet" with 1500 hours (1300 Jet time), with a landing every 2 hours (650, with 50% of those done by captain), would have done 325 landings. Sure maybe 10 of those were hard (firm) landings, but there are still 315 standard landings. The long debate whether MPL/Ab initio cadets can "fly" the plane shouldn't be a mystery. Each time you hear a western accent on 121.6 after vacating a runway, it's highly likely a "cadet" just landed the aircraft.
EDIT: Yes, I am a cadet product.
Edit 2: misused "hard" for firm landings.