At EAT they try to save money just as every company due to the economical situation. 2 A300 are grounded and will return to the lesser. This is the reason that all the contract pilots will not get a renewal of their contract and the ACL pilots that came with the ACL A300's will also leave the company. It is very said as we loose a lot of good, nice colleagues. This is probably the reason that the course of the guys you mentioned is canceled. I hope good times will return asap and hope it will not get that bad that they will start firing EAT pilots.
Also at the moment, and this for the first 2 weeks of the year about 7 aircrafts are not used due to the reduced business of every new year.
Regards