CAE easyJet MPL 2020

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• Programme is closed indefinitely to new entrants.
• Those who completed their training at the end of MPL have been put into hold pool with no certainty of job ever coming available, that includes those who started their TR pre-covid.
• UK training is not fully up and running for most L3/CAE cadets in the pipeline so training is paused indefinitely other than theoretical knowledge via webinar (all in addition to the major non covid delays), there has been talk that severance clauses in the training contract might be used to end EasyJet's involvement with those at an early stage of MPL training and revert them on whitetail ATPL courses. Those at a later stage will likely follow point two and end up in a holding pool for an undetermined time unless another Airbus operator can pick them up. Those I've spoken to in the pools are not expecting jobs before 2022 and are seeking employment (mostly outside aviation) elsewhere to bridge the financial shortfalls.
  
  All in all, the worst has not yet come. The training bills will still need paying with no income, I'd go as far to say there hasn't been a worse time in the industries' history to finish training to be a pilot, at least for then short-medium term.