Thomas Cook used to offer a similar deal to the cadets coming out of the end of the CTC Wings Cadet course. There are other contributors to this board who will probably be able to give you more detail, but the most recent batch were given part-year contracts of (I believe) 7 months on, 5 months off - and that was after a lot of umming and ahhing over whether they'd be kept on at all.
The more pertinent question, as many will undoubtedly pile on to this thread and ask you shortly, is why are you considering throwing a large five-figure sum at an 0-fATPL scheme in the middle of one of the worst recruitment markets the industry has seen for decades.
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