How does A320 find his stats? Hasn't another thread had a comment of 2-500 new posts with Easy? So how can there be only 500 posts in Europe for newbies, considering the number of retirements (high at the moment - my father's RAF contemporaries who flew civvy are all about that age where there is no choice, and they were a big recruitment bulge) and the expansion in the sector where I work which is outside Easy's market (I have a job, by the way A320) and in other companies I know of (e.g. FlyBe have half their ordered Q400s and are already short of pilots, Ryanair).
So where does the figure come from? And is the 5-10,000 as inaccurate?