Tony,
That was a very good reply and thanks for your opinions. So am I right in thinking that according to you, if an Airline is adverising for pilots to fly on their Airbus Fleet who have just finsihed Piltot school - they will go for the one with an ATPL compared to the person who has an MPL and has a license to fly an A320 straight away?
Forgetting about being a captain for a minute - I have read so many posts here about pilots that can't find jobs etc. Now surely, with Airbus having approx 50% market, you have a better advantage of getting a job in the first place with an MPL? We are talking about getting that coveted position in an Airline. Once your in, you get paid- you build hours. You get hundreds of hours and priceless operational experience as well as flying. YOu earn money to do your IR, CPL, MCC. Yet the ATPL pilot is still flying around in cessnas? Yeah- the ATPL person is the better pilot. But so what- an airline have got a pilot ready to walk straight into the right hand seat of an A320 - or with very little time/training/cost - can walk into the right hand seat of any airbus.
I'm finding this so confusing. I'm going to write to every major airline i can think of and ask their reruiting department whether they see the MPL as Useless in this present day. Ill obviously post more info as i get it