Having flown everything from C150 to the Electra from DC 9 to 777, with PPL's to Mil to wannabe Astronauts!...
With this kind of aviation exposure LOTSO, I'm surprised that none of your co-pilots ever told you to keep your words sweet because one day you might have to eat them.
I met Binsleepin once, a thoroughly nice guy and obviously a talented pilot. I can only see him being a credit to the Jet2 operation. Rightly or wrongly, management can curry favour or ease a pilots path any way they want.
Had it not been for an economic downturn he'd probably be starting a 747 rating at an airline that most of you lot have been applying to like mad these past few months..!