Command prospects at easyjet are excellent. A first officer with the right abilities (and the training standards at easy are still extraordinarily high) will be a captain years ahead of those at Virgin or Emirates. Yet F/O`s and even captains are taking the lifestyle choice of moving to the prospect of years in the RHS rather than endure the current ceaseless grind.
Four years ago easyJet management realised they needed to take drastic action to retain and recruit the necessary skilled personnel to keep the airline expanding without reducing standards and safety, and introduced a superb package which worked a treat. Four years on they need to make the same brave and sensible decisions; the supply of redundant pilots from bankrupt european airlines will soon dry up and MyTravel is probably not going bust! A new roster pattern of a genuine 5/3 and a pay package aimed at making easyJet a career airline is the only way to man a fleet expanding at a reported 30% a year.
