Smell the coffee people - some of us have been grinding it for well over a year now.
Dozens and dozens of new entrants to the pool each month. NO permanent jobs on the horizon. IR's lapsing and sim skills rusting. It can only end in one mess and there was never anything in the brochure about a job or maintaining currency.
The burden of risk was moved from the airlines to the wannabes and the mechanism was CTC.
Like rampant house prices - everybody won until the music stopped.
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