As for other people being disadvantaged by not being picked...well it's a big world.
Tailscrape, I and others were picked but by BY, not by CTC so I have been disadvantaged and not because I wasn't good enough (as you seem to imply). I too, like ....
These CTC guys have passed a rigorous selection test programme and are deemed good enough to have passed a 757 rating.
I think what you fail to realise is that as long as you are the flavour of the month, it all looks good but let me try to illustrate this using a fictional example that contains some truth.
Let's say you were at the bottom of the JMC list and almost certainly made redundant at the end of October.
You are now qualified on the 757 and with a few hundreds of hours under your belt you would expect to be able to find a job fairly rapidly after your last JMC flight.
Quite rightly so me think but of course assuming you have the hours, how would you feel if you were to remain unemployed for another 6 months or more, simply because Monarch (fiction), would rather get low cost CTC guys than you. As a matter of fact you could remain unemployed forever simply because of such programme.
As I said, you are/were the flavour of the month but once you are going to re enter the market, the unemployed qualified pilots (more than I am) will be there to wish you a warm welcome.
Don't get me wrong this isn't personal at all. I agree that whoever has made it through the CTC selections did well but where I disagree is that you see it as a great opportunity for inexperienced pilots (truly is) whereas I see it as a long term industry damaging scheme.
I hope you won't be in that situation but sooner or later you might find yourself fighting for your job, your benefits and be in a real struggle against your old CTC comrades. Fair ? who said the world was fair
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Before your time there was a system where pilot such as Turbine1 could post as much as they like. One day the bigr Gret new server came along and the post were lost (which is what you use to judge people's ability to comment about your useless, misinformed, naive, posts).
As the man said, what don't you p*** off