dboy
I think whatever anybody is going to say on this thread, your viewpoint will not change.
The argument you make is one of fairness? Well, would you consider it fair that a premiership football club pays millions to sign on a known player from an opposing team even though they have many young soccer cadets in their own ranks? Maybe you'd be happy to have your teeth looked at by a student dentist compared to one with 20 years experience under their belt or have some major house renovation undertaken by a brand new builder plucked from yellow pages compared to one with 30 years experience and comes highly recommended? Recommendation based on years of previous experience.
Ultimately, it's not about jumping the queue simply because there isn't one. Every person applying for an airline job does so on their own merit and is assessed as such. Unless you are completely naive to this industry, you'll know by now that it's driven by supply and demand. It's market forces. Regardless of whether there's a shortage or a glut of good qualified pilots, it's the airline prerogative who they take and when. If a pool of pilots with a proven history suddenly become available, it would make bad business sense not to consider them. They're a proven entity and have heaps of experience under their belt. Training costs are reduced, they also add to the bottom line of safety with their years of simulator assessments. Remember, in it's almost 50 year history, Monarch did not suffer one hull loss. That's not just luck (although there's always elements of that), that's testament to the quality of their pilots and the training department and Culture within the Company. The airline itself had a sterling reputation amongst other airlines for the morale and can do attitude as well as the standard of it's operation. This includes the high safety standard set by the cabin crew. That will and has counted for something and is the very reason why the airlines are making a beeline for the crew.
Does that not make a logical argument?