PinguGoesFlying in order to answer your questions you will need to dig deeper in industry knowledge study.
Why didn’t they do it in 2020? They legally couldn’t, if you can recall, their training centres were in the U.K., Italy and Amsterdam (CAE). These countries completely shut down for the first three months of the pandemic until a solution for social distancing was prepared. After that, full rating training simply wasn’t possible and there was a backlog of recurrent training growing. There was no capacity, but if there were, MOL wouldn’t want this to stop as he couldn’t care less for Covid measures. Check today’s news on RYR Dublin HQ covid cases, turns out HSE took over as their offices is a hotspot and some staff were told to withhold info from health services, if they testes positive they had to deny they were in contact with others as HSE could shut down the place. That’s their ethos, zero care.
The issue of pilot recency still a problem for all airlines. There is no room to keep people current, never mind the rest. This is basic stuff...
The 2017 problems were a byproduct of their own arrogance.
Why won’t others copy? Why would you want that? It goes down to Union power protecting pilots rights, something Ryanair despises.
Who do you think lobbied for that 5€ K (then 10€K) bond contract and terms for cadets? The improvement of permanent contracts all around were results of union work, everything is now lost.
BA wouldn’t adopt the Ryanair way because over 90% of their pilot workforce is Unionised, their last strike grounded the airline and cost them a fortune. When you make it, you will understand why professional pilots are so avert to this idea, it’s because we worked hard to get there and work hard to remain, we want to secure our families future.
The full type rating cost liability issue crossovers to a philosophical debate with your business model, would you want to run your training department for profit and how does that reflect on your brand.
I agree with the premise that EZY is just as bad, their flexicrew contract with CTC was technically the same scheme wrapped in a posh gloss to make those cadets feel they were more special than Ryanair ones.
I certainly hope that there are better deals out there when you’re ready to apply.