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Old 20th November 2006 | 09:39
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Cutoff
 
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EasyJet alone need 450 pilots by next June...

Well so the rumour goes, but even Easy could not handle 450 pilots at once, that many takes a long time to get through. There are plenty of airlines that claim to want pilots, but there are not many with the trainers to train all these recruits let alone sim slots, alongside all the recurrent training that they have to do as well. So yes there might be a 'demand' for pilots but there is not the training capacity to handle them.

This is why the Flybe purchase actually is a good thing for Bacon, the alternative was closure, Flybe can pick and choose how to integrate the pilots into their operation at their speed, keep routes covered with the Ex Bacon aircraft until they can get all through their training requirements, there are not that many Q400 sims in the world and they are busy now.

So no, there are not 450 opportunites out there now, there might be over time, but not all at once!
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