You can be as confrontational as you like but you know as well as I do that as soon as easy
need DECs they'll bloody well have them. There aint a thing you can do about it either.
The only reason that you don't need them at the moment is because of the current recruitment market, or lack thereof.
Are you going to tell
them to shove it?
To address NSF's point
If stansdead, or others like him, were to appear on some thread about BA or Virgin demanding to be let in as a DEC, he would be laughed out of court for all the same reasons he will not be considered at easyJet
The same reasons? No, not at all. The reason airlines such as the ones you mentioned very rarely take DECs is because they are long haul operators.
Nobody in their right mind would want to jump from the left seat of a short haul domestic and European operation to the left seat of ULH, polar, transatlantic, ETOPS, extended overwater ops. And nobody in their right mind would recruit such people. Two completely different types of operation no?