easyJet is no longer a career airline. It's over
Was it ever? It's an airline for youngsters to learn and gain experience before moving on to a proper airline job (if any exist - it's a matter of timing and always has been). It's an airline for oldsters to spend their sunset days, pass on their wisdom and top up their pensions. It's an airline that recruits people from outside to fill the senior positions within Flight Operations and on the Board as opposed to developing and promoting people from within.
I feel sorry for young captains in easyJet for they are trapped: There is no clear promotion route except into training and that has ceased for the duration. Direct entry command elswhere? Where, apart from another LoCo? The only route out is to go back to the RHS. Twenty years as a co-pilot in BA, anyone?
Why does anyone try to pretend it's a "career" airline? It never has been and never will be. It's a LoCo. LoCos don't care about "Careers". They care about costs. That's it. Period.
I take no satisfaction in pointing this out. People just need a dose of reality.