Rosco,
Actually Clara and the other ATP guys are cheaper as they paid £35000 for type rating and line training. In fact they flew for free
I have read an internal document about a year ago stating that Direct entry pilots and CTC recruiting is going to be kept at an absolute minimum and focusing primarily on TRSS as it is the the cheapest way for EZY.
Anyway that document was from before they took in these ATP selffunded guys which I believe has been permanently stopped.
But going back to the holding pool; I think you will be swimming for a good time and unless you don't want to join as TRSS, I think you will be swimming there forever