757 Manipulator - your post sums up the frustrations of discussions here on PPrune. It is so important to read what is said and not what you think someone might be wanting to say. Nobody, least of all me as a 146-rated pilot, has suggested, either implicitly or explicitly, that easyJet and CTC consider 'all 146 drivers as a liability'. For you to suggest that just raises the ante and is a misrepresenation of what I said.
Actually NSF, I read very carefully what you had to say...and even thought that what you "were" trying to say was rather well conveyed, which you confirmed with...
and so it would be fair to say that the 146 is at best regarded as a 'halfway house' within the industry
Now don't get me wrong, I wasn't suggesting you consider 146 drivers as having experience little better than T/P time...I was suggesting that Easy and CTC have this view.
Jensen has summed this up quite nicely, as this is clearly snobbery driven by a cash imperative.
My own opinion is unchanged...it does however seem preposterous to think the industry however considers 146 time in the same fashion as T/P time, I would argue that this falls into the catagory of incompetence or stupidity.