However, a real issue is this;
1) They have a recruitment freeze.
2) They have a holding pool. Incidently it costs around £5,000 per year to be in the holding pool to remain current.
3) They will only start emptying the hold pool when the economy dictates.
4) The new MPL cadets will have to wait their turn in the hold pool.
So, for MPL cadets to go into a job, the economy has to pick up, flyBE start recruiting and the hold pool has to empty. All within the next 18 months.
1) May or may not be relevant to this particular scheme a year or more from now?
2) "Holding?" Nobody is held. You are free to go elsewhere as you wish. It might cost you £5000 a year. It costs them virtually nothing except maybe the price of a postage stamp.
3) The "pool" can be made larger or smaller or done away with completely as they see fit. There is absolutely no binding commitment one way or the other to anybody within it. Offering contracts of employment to anybody who has been previously interviewed and deemed suitable will only happen when each individual airline has a requirement. The wider economy might or might not have a bearing on the absolute requirement. Even then employment may be offered to previous applicants deemed suitable, or may be offered to brand new applicants.
4) Will they? I can find no stated requirement or any legal obligation to do that. This scheme is a structured scheme that operates at outset within one particular airlines training programme. If you actually stop and think about it, applying that logic, no MPL student would ever realistically be able to gain employment within an airline so long as there were suitably qualified applicants within this "pool". Clearly that is not the stated aim or in any part a requirement of this particular programme. The money that has been
advanced to these students is recovered from their employment within that company. Given the financial outlay who do you think they will actually employ first?
So, for MPL cadets to go into a job, the economy has to pick up, flyBE start recruiting and the hold pool has to empty. All within the next 18 months.
No it doesn't. No they don't and no it doesn't.