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I thought the managed entry scheme itself was the bite. Not our objections to it.
It amazing is it not that a turbo prop Captain with Fly Be who has already passed the BA selection tests is booted out of the hold pool in favour of a service pilot candiate who as yet may not hold a licence and has no commercial experiance what so ever.
Now it is completely lawfull to discrimante against anybody on any grounds providing a law has not been passed preventing you from doing so.
So initially it would seem completely legal to discriminate against highly experianced civilian pilots in favour of relatively inexperianced unqualified (differently qualified service pilots ) if thats what you want to do with your train set.
However you are not permitted in the civilain world to discriminate on the grounds of Race, Gender, Age, Sexuality and Disability amongst other things .
But the MOD under cover of Crown Immunity has done all of the above in the past and continues to discriminate on the basis of Race, Disability and Age today.
Therefore any selection route into a civilain company which allows only service pilots to apply is arguably indirectly discriminatory. The direct discrimination was carried out lawfully by MOD using Crown Immunity but it may not be lawful to carry this discrimination onwards into a civilain company by using a recruiting scheme limited to service pilots only.
I think the best bet is to bring the scheme to the attention of BALPA and let them take a view on it.