Ah yes the old easy/146/ctc saga crops up again. Total BS. The story supposedly goes that when Debonair went bust, Easy took on a load of ex 146 drivers and supposedly had problems with them therefore every 146 pilot in Europe is crap in the orange and white world of Lootown. Add to that the fact that CTC don't like them either because it didn't have 737 written on the side of it..'so it must be crap' and you have the double whammy. Now mix into that a recruitment department where most think that 146's have 2 props on them and the sun rises in the west and a genuinely misguided belief that people actually want to pay to work for easyjet and what do you get??
Try Titan 737 and 757 (an the odd globespan 76) subs for the summer and 60+ flights a week cancelled.
Factor into that the 'acceptable' attrition rate of 10+ pilots a month leaving, not enough trainers to train the recruits and a roster pattern that has left the remaining crews maxed out and you get....orange meltdown
Once good outfit, gone bad.
