Originally Posted by
Biatch
I would be more inclined to believe what someone else here has said, in that the company cannot afford to run a recruiting quota.
Course they can. There are thousands of applicants for any form of airline pilot employment program (both direct entry and traineeships).
HR departments have so many applicants to choose from that they can cherry pick who they want and weed someone out because they don't like the colour of their eyebrows.
In many threads here, there are stories of captains going for direct entry with thousands of hours of jet experience being turned down in favour of someone with a few hundred hours of instructing in a duchess.
HR departments are a cancer on every organization. Don't for one second believe they will choose the best person for the job.
Flying an aeroplane isn't difficult, you can train any monkey to fly. Who gets the job comes down to what kind of candidate the twisted HR personnel are frothing at the mouth for at that point in time.