Exodus my ass - 9 Captains and 9 Copilots leaving in total over the next three months. Four to Emirates - 1 Cp and 3 Co-jo - 2 to FlyDubai a Cp and a CoJo. I know 2 of the CoJos leaving to Emirates and both failed command in STN twice. Over a year that is maybe 80-100 leaving in total out of 2600.
Well this is what you know as far as STN is concerned so far, lots of people from many other bases attended the various roadshows EK held across Europe and quite a few of them will be going to DXB over the next few months for their selections.
As trainers all briefed that 3 OCC courses cancelled - replaced with Command courses. DEC courses end next March. No plans to ever hire DE FO's as it takes winter and 2 SIMS to get into command process.
Strange, quite a few OCC guys from Skyeurope and Olympic have been seen around lately.
It might take 1 winter and 2 sims to upgrade a DE FO, it takes around 3/4 years to upgrade a cadet in the best case (with around 50% failure rate).