What You, Me, CTC, BA or Easyjet do not know is when things will pick up, but when they do pick up I think the CTC scheme will be every bit as good as it was 2 years ago.
I agree. I would also add despite the problems (and everybody in the industry is feeling it right now) CTC seem to be placing quite a few considering the circumstances.
Regardless of the passion of the posts by The Beak, WWW, et al, they do not know what is around the corner. As for any many CRM scenarios, you are all going to have to work with incomplete information to come to your decision and give due regard to all opinions regardless of how loud some maybe shouting.