Calm down EZYramper.
"they pay us £1k a month for 6 months. At no point are we paying to fly."
It's actually your own money coming back to you, hence the lack of NI/Income Tax etc etc etc
easyJet are *not* paying you, nor are you ever an employee of theirs.
Instead of "paying to fly" you're just doing the job for free, hardly much difference is there?
The only difference in the past was the guaranteed job at the end, thus people overlooked that you were working for free. Now there is no guaranteed job, you are now just getting the type rating and line flying included in the £69k you pay up front.