fade to grey - Just to clarify my own position, I am an easyJet Airbus Training Captain who is simply keen for easyJet to do as well as it can in the current climate. I have nothing whatsoever to do with CTC and never have done - nor am I likely to be seeking employment with them any time soon! I have no axe to grind other than one of absolute frustration at short term thinking by people who are paid obscence sums of money to do a whole lot better. I have, however, personally trained a number of our CTC cadets and they are almost invariably top quality people. They are inexperienced, but nonetheless are type-rated and have a little less than 500 hours on type. You therefore cannot speak in the same breath as them and people with 200 hours out of Oxford. They are therefore exactly who EI want as many of their early teething problems have been ironed out at easyJet in a robust training environment whilst operating all around Europe. As I said earlier, it really does not get much better than that in terms of suitability to go to EI. I wish them all well, but I cannot say I hope that EI do too well out of Gatwick!