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Old 12th Dec 2008, 14:52
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Norman Stanley Fletcher
 
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Some confusion here. To those that may not understand, there are 2 different schemes under discussion here. CTC provides cadets to various companies via 2 different schemes - an an-initio sheme taking about 18 months including basic flying training in New Zealand and their ATP scheme which involves newly qualified but inexperienced pilots getting a type-rating and some other training. Both get placed with partner airlines like easyJet for 6 months and historically always got permanent jobs if they were up to scratch. Recently easyJet departed from that and binned over 20 good people at the end of their 6 months to save money. Nonetheless, I understand that easyJet has an ongoing contract to provide 6 months' flying to other CTC pilots who will come along as and when we can take them. They may or may not get permanent jobs some time in the future - a terrible state of affairs but those are the bare facts.

Over and above that, an easyJet Training Captain runs a different scheme whereby newly qualified pilots turn up with £32k and easyJet (among others) provide a type-rating and give them 150 hours line training but no job at the end of it. Confusingly, this is also called 'The ATP Scheme' but is nothing to do with CTC. By 'mutual agreement' easyJet's contract with that scheme was cancelled last week. There will be no further pilots undertaking line training at easyJet from that scheme but easyJet will finish the training of all ATP pilots already in the system
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