Regardless of the rumored relationship difficulties between the two there remains a couple of basic facts to consider.
1. The EZY cadet intake from CTC this year is clearly going to be limited to the summer Flexicrew scheme, recruitment for which must be virtually complete for 2009.
2. The Cadets operating this summer will not be kept on for winter. Thus, around 60 to 70 airbus qualified cadets will then be on the market.
3. Any Flexicrew recruitment for 2010 will start with these cadets and not with the poor guys languishing in the hold pools.
4. Andy Harrison continues to make noises about wider pilot redundancies come winter.
Therefore, I think anyone considering CTC as a training option should not get too excited about the supposed "relationship" with Easyjet, which seems to be taking a turn for the worse.
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