Easyjet will face recruitment problems in the coming year. Not only from pilots leaving in largish numbers but from the recruitment departments inability to cope with reality. The company should have promoted a large number of FO's months ago but didn't. Now they have little choice. This will leave a large number of new captains and a large number of new (trss?) FO's who can't fly together initially. Couple that to a crewing department who in fairness are overstretched and chaos will reign.
Virtually every FO I have talked to recently has something in the pipeline..mainly BA / Virgin...even those coming up for command. Plenty of captains are talking of it too. Some are even considering other careers.
Easyjet is certainly not the worst place to be in aviation but things are starting to creak at the seams now. You know things are getting rough when people start talking of applying to Ryanair. I'll give that one a miss unless they anounce 5/4/5/4!