'Over the next 18 months there will be a lot of young, very high calibre and well motivated individuals looking for a cockpit.'
It's a thought .......... but what about young (and not so young), very high calibre and well motivated individuals with several thousand hours and out of work for 12 months plus looking for a cockpit?
I have every sympathy with the RAF pilots being made redundant but they join the back of very long queue of those who have also suffered the same fate in the civil sector through no fault of their own.