Everyone is a winner!!
...CTC-yes, Airlines-yes, New Cadets desperate for hours - yes probably.
....XL/Silverjet Captains with families and a Mortgage....NO
....Guys with 700hrs and 6 months experience ready to start paying off £1200 a month...NO
I can see why CTC would do this. It gets bums into right hand seats and helps clear there back log.
But not many airlines are ever going to take people on a permanent contract, if their rivals are getting cheap summer labour.
If you've got a mortgage or 60k loan, how will you ever pay it off? 4 months one summer, then the winter stacking shelves, then 6 months of the next summer in the far east or something, then a winter delivering post. There will just be no stable income, you will be moving all over and you will never get a permanent contract because no one will be offering you one. And if you turn down yet another temporary contract, no problem to the airline, because theres hundreds of cadets behind you that will take the contract
Rubbish
