cadet programs?

[da kine]

I got into LAX for my 14 hour layover and ran into some other crew members from another carrier (Cathay Pacific?) who told me some of their pilots come from their cadet program. I would like to find out more information on how the rest of the planet goes about training their future airline pilots, more out curiosity than anything else. Anyone out there know of a website or articles that pretain to Eurpoean or Asian "cadet programs" please let me know.
Thank you,

 

[Kawasumi_Kichou]

Do a search on "ab initio pilot training". That should get you some hits to work on. One reason many European and Asian carriers go this route is that their home countries usually don't have large GA or military aviation communities churning out gobs of qualified pilot candidates. As a result they end up having to at least partially grow their own.

 

[Doubleo6point9]

Check out the message boards at pprune. I was reading a little bit about the Singapore Cadet program in the Far East section and they went into detail about the entire program.

 

[BusterHymen]

http://www.siacargo.com/cadetpilot.asp