the people BMI have just laid off? Do you even care that some of those guys have been laid off to accommodate you?
I am most certainly not a fan of what is going on in bmi with the pay to fly cadets, we should never have got involved in my opinion, but I can I can tell you quite definitely that no one has been laid off to accommodate them. We have a procedure in place that gives our First Officers a day off when a cadet takes their flying but gives them the option to turn up, sit on the jumpseat and claim flight allowances for the day if they so choose. These people are not making up the headcount of the airline in anyway at all (yet!).