At the moment I'm based on the IOM which is great given I'm Manx. I have done approx 550 hours here on the island. our colleagues in Dublin and Cork are doing 600-700 a year. I some cases Cork based crews are close to Max hours given the length of the flights in an ATR!
Great to work for stable roster pattern 5/2 5/3.
There is internal applications ongoing for the EMB fleet and it would appear to be quite straight forward to move across.
We have seen around 25 go into EI - so yes getting into EI isn't an issue.