It's like WWW says guys. I don't think there is an element of favouratism in the choice of OAT/GECAT. Easy are having to cancel flights because they simply don't have the sufficient crews to operate the summer schedule - for the management beancounters that is seriously bad news. They have gone to an FTO with a big name that carries a reputation because they need bodies, and quickly. Like it or not Oxford has a well marketed name and product that carries credibility, purely on the basis that it has provided low hours people to airlines in the past and still does. That is part of the reason you pay over the odds to train there. I'm not saying Oxford is better than PAT or anywhere else, but airlines are never very trusting when it comes to the recruitment of us inexperienced people. As for the guys who got the gig - right place right time, good luck to them.