Wanabee,Gunnabee,Am,
It's a bit of a mystery why JB is going to all this trouble (the pilot group opposes it, FWIW) as it's a career destination airline with plenty of experienced people making serious efforts to work for them. While there's some room for improvement in T&C (isn't there always ?) that's being addressed and people are making careers there while regionals are, for most people, a steppingstone where some abuse will be tolerated by aspirants in pursuit of a longer term goal.
If this ab initio program is different from the now common university CFI-regional pilot schemes in the US, JB isn't a regional paying new hires $23K/yr. That may be a subtle difference escaping the casual glance. JB is a major and successful carrier.
I don't see a date on this but you'll get the idea:
http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/a...etblue_airways
Hard to say where the program will go or if it'll even survive. But, it's unique here which makes it newsworthy and so far involves miniscule numbers of people. Hard to believe the concept will be widespread here.