Originally Posted by
midnight cruiser
Not me;, I was grossly insulted that the CC DID retrospectively value my 25 years prior experience at zero (in terms of bidding/seniority, and any valuing you claim beyond that is just empty platitudes)... The pay was ok, then having been expropriated - it wasn't - so I left.
easyJet are not the same - the pilot is close to command to be able to bid on a separate P1 list and doesn't carry over JFO time, unless it has changed). So as you describe it now, who would want to join as Ryanair DEP now? = lower quality pilot, and/or higher price ... So instead, the operational inbreeding of the predominant cadets, and ex cadets, training cadets, going on to train ad infinitum - leading to some very strange aircraft handling practices IMO (but stick to parroting the SOPs word perfect, Uber alles, and all's good)!
The SOPs I suppose can seem a pain, but how else to get 2 pilots from 2 different countries with different native tongues and a combined experience of 5 years (as you put it) to safely operate a 70 tonne jet? As pedantic as it can seem at times, it does seem to work surely you'd agree ..