“I’ve come to note over the past decade that we’ve gone to the cheapest way possible of getting airline pilots.”
Well, just be glad they aren’t hiring Koreans. I read a piece by a retired UAL Captain who went to work in Korea training for both KAL and later Asiana. He says that most of them can’t actually hand fly the aircraft. The Asiana crash at SF makes that crystal clear. I would never fly an Asian airline under any circumstances.
I read that piece too. Kind of scary.
Actually US-born Asians with US-FAA airline transport pilot ratings have to go work in the middle east because they hardly get decent pilot jobs in U.S. airlines even if they were USAF graduates.