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)!
In easyJet it works exactly like that. In the base I would like to eventually transfer to I have 3/4 dozens of FOs ahead of me. It takes 2/3 years in the company as a FO to be able to put your name on a Cpt transfer list, so very similar to Ryanair.