I wonder who decided that the MPL(A) should be an 'Ab Initio only' licence ??
It seems to me that a CPL holder with ATPL exam passes, could enter the MPL at a halfway stage and have a better/quicker chance of getting into the right hand seat of a jet.
Lets say you have the CPL and the exams and you know what type you'd like to fly, and perhaps who you'd like to fly with, so do you pay for an IR and then a type rating and MCC and hope for an interview, or do you do a part MPL course tailored to your preferred employer ? Which would the employer rather have ?
Shame that option doesn't seem to be available really.