I would beg to differ. It is inconceivable to me that at any point in the foreseeable future easyJet will return to DECs. They have been a necessary evil which nearly every pilot at easyJet would recognise. Nonetheless, with approaching 300 pilots in the hunt for a command at the moment and less than 50 commands this year (half of which will be temporary), there can be no justification any time soon for DECs.
TRSS was merely a reflection of market forces - people wanted to come to easyJet without significant medium/heavy jet experience and were willing to be paid less for the privelege. It is simply supply and demand. Right now there is a huge supply of cheap, high-quality but low-houred pilots to take advantage of - therefore easyJet does! If we have to take experienced type-rated pilots we will do so and pay the market rate. Right now we do not need to and therefore we stuff young CTC cadets with temporary contracts before kicking them out into a cold winter. It is a hard world right now and easyJet is playing hard ball. Disappointing, but right now they hold all the aces.