Nick, quite incredible. You have absolutely no idea about how the EZY pay-for-your-rating system works. Did you also know that having paid the cash, you then do not get paid for months as a little insult to injury?
Your suggestion to talk to your base captain also amused me, I talked about the TRSS scheme to my base captain - and he thought it was just a bond! He also had no idea how it works.
BTW, I keep hearing two numbers in relation to the number of flights cancelled due to lack of crew - one is 1000 and the other is 2000 (2% of summer flights). NSF et al, is this the way you expect an excellent airline to operate? Which number is correct?
I am still in regular contact with the managers of one of the TP outfits that traditionally supply easyJet with pilots. They are now quite happy - in the past easy took the good guys, now it's only the worrying idiots we are taking.