Originally Posted by
clubord
Respectfully, skill and judgement of pilots is gained from experience. A 200 hour pilot can just as easily put an Airbus in the trees as a Boeing.
I started my career in a CRJ with around 700 flight hours. Looking back now, that was dangerous. 200 hours is unimaginable in a B737, you're just a warm body working the radios with that experience level.
In almost every other country in the world (including Europe), it is completely normal for FOs to start flying after 150 hours or so of flying time. This ET FO who had 350 hours of flying time was no doubt inexperienced, but it is the norm in most countries and OEMs need to design aircraft and training keeping this fact in mind.
Most countries don't have general aviation like the US does, so pilot training is prohibitively expensive and difficult. Airlines usually pay for training for pilots with no experience (cadet system). It is not realistic to expect the airline to pay for 1000+ hours of flight training before getting their pilots on the line. The overall safety record of aviation worldwide seems to show that this system works reasonably well.