Recently flew with a new joiner from Easyjet. He'd done 3 years and had left 6 months before his command course was due. It'll take him ten years in BA to catch up with the earnings he would have had at Easyjet as a Captain and about 15 years to get a command at BA. Looks like they could do with introducing some basic punctuation and grammar skills to the cabin crew training course. By the way pips, have a look at post number 245 in this thread.