Our airline (US based large) encourages hand flying in an appropriate environment. Clear day, not a lot of traffic, smaller airport, turn everything off including FD. I encourage the line pilots I fly with to hand fly. By the third of fourth flight in the course of line training and landings are progressing well, I have the trainee fly the approach and land using manual thrust. Most certainly by the end of line training he or she will have accomplished several manual thrust landings.