Big Tudor, These seven pilots are all well qualified and a few are TRE's. I never said, or even implied that their main reason was joining easyJet for the shares,we all know they can go down in value as well as up. But, if they were promised the shares as part of their overall package which was the case, then they should get them.
A year or two later, some pilots already qualified on type were promised a golden hello of about £30k (you may recall the adverts from Flight Int'l), can you imagine the uproar if those pilots joined only to find that this was renegged upon by the management! They would probably take easyJet to court, as this lot ARE doing!!!
Get my point?