PILOTS...!! Jokes aside, I feel CX/KA pilots have missed the very old (30 years) training paradigm which saw a captain with as little as 4000 hours, or just 12 months in the company, and a 150 hr pilot crewed up together, in arguably the more demanding flying within the group- the Boeing 737 KA operation (without an INS and mostly non precision approaches) in China. Viewed as safe and little later comparatively cheap, possibly by more than a factor of half, B scale when compared to a A scale crew.
The rumors that time, when introducing the TriStar (L1011), KA was taking over CX regional network ASAP.
Low cost anyone..?
Last edited by tsimbeit; 6th Jan 2017 at 07:16.