There is worse happening, just ask the cadets who are doing around 400hrs of work at ezy for free this summer, only to be told to sling their hooks come the autumn.
Knowingly taking on pilots desperate for hours, paying them nothing and then letting them go - that's a disgrace to the industry, and it is totally
ing everything up for those who may wish to follow. If you want "seasonality" then you take on contract pilots on a temporary basis, and you
pay them. Unfortunately the scheme CTC set up that has worked so well for a few thousand pilots over the last decade or so is now in a dire state. Their desperation to place cadets is allowing the likes of easyJet to raise the bar on immoral practices towards inexperienced pilots.