The low-cost part of Thomsonfly, well, I think its days are probably numbered. In which case there will be a huge surplus of qualified, type rated pilots for Thomsonfly to choose from, and the rest may well be made redundant.
Just to clarify on this, Thomsonfly is a single entity, there isn't a low cost airline within the airline anymore. For sure, some of the flights are scheduled low cost, whereas some are charter, but the pilots are a single group with common t's and c's. There's talk that with the reducing/closing of the low cost flights, the additional capacity will be partly used to increase the frequency of some charter routes. Overall there will be a reduction in the fleet over the next few years though.
The point I'm trying to make though is that should the low cost flights cease altogether, and management decide to reduce pilot numbers, its going to affect everyone employed by Tui Travel (from 1st of May) and not just the "low cost" pilots, as such a group do not exist.
Sorry for the thread creep. Regarding recruitment, I can't see any for the next year at least, but after summer 09, who knows.