SteveAv,
Given your initial question was about jobs and unemployed CPL's in the UK I don't think that anyone has alluded to the fact that you don't have to be British to take a job with a UK company so that makes even more people vying for the same job. Just listening to the airwaves where commercial traffic roams will illustrate that. You just have to have the right to work in the UK, a JAR licence and have the opinion that T&C's here are better than your own country. Not that there is a problem with that - if you want to apply for a job with Lufthansa, SAS, Iberia etc feel free....
(From what I gather Ryanair is a particularly good example of that - and I know that Eire is not part of the UK but it illustrates the point)
If a foreign airline goes under, expect the queue of new joiners for an airline who fly the same type to get a bit longer (with the low of hour remaining at the back)
Good luck to you whatever you decide.
RP
