All
Thankyou all very much for your support.
I am completely content to start life as a F/O. I realise that commercial flying is a totally different environment to the military and that I have an awful lot to learn. (every day is a school day). What I was trying unsuccessfully to put into words was that with any more experience than 200 hours and the ability to get into CTC, with respect to easy jet, you are now over the hill and past it.
It doesn't matter whether you have military or civvie experience.
Easy jet is a public company run for the owners/investors and therefore they will take the most cost effective options including crewing. At the moment that means CTC cadets. I realise that, my timing sucks. In the future there will probably be a shortage of cadets as people realise that they can't pay off 70,000 pound loans on 12000 pounds a year. There will then be a shortage of pilots.
Regards