I think many of you are missing the point here. We're not arguing about the minimum qualifications to work for Brymon (or whomever), we're arguing about the minimum qualifications to apply for a job. While they may say that integrated course graduates with 250 hours may apply, when contrasted with a similar-aged graduate of a modular course with 1000 useful and relevant hours, it's very debatable who would get the job. Look at it this way; they want FATPL holders with 1000+ hours. To make sure they're not missing out on the best graduates of the integrated courses (who are in demand by many of the airlines), they allow recent graduates to apply also. Does that make you feel better? I hope so, but it makes no difference to your task - to get those hours.
To those who think Brymon will regret this when they need lots of pilots, just what planet are you on? The pilot job market has never been better than it is now. Qualification requirements are lower than they've ever been, which doesn't please the airlines or their insurers - or their training departments. This is not going to last. In a year's time, hours requirements will be creeping up. If ever there is a direct equivalence between integrated and modular graduates, it is likely be at a higher number of hours, say 1000, with certain other requirements, like say 300 hours multi. You have it now as good (for you) as it's ever been, and yet you want it easier! Sometimes you guys don't know you're born.
Surely a far more productive argument would be to try and persuade the UK airline industry to open a sponsored aviation academy to cover, say, a constant 50% of the good-time entry-level employment numbers. That would ensure that it wouldn't have to close in the inevitable bad times. On top of that, there should be tax breaks for those who can't attend this academy, similar to any that might apply to, say, mature students of law or medicine. Now that, it seems to me, would be a worthwhile project. Forget complaining because you can't get a Brymon job with 250 hours. I doubt anyone else will, either.