Bug Speed,
The company has only recruited 18 MPL students, from the only 2 FTOs which are approved to offer it, and 6 of that number are only just in initial training now. That hardly accounts for the "majority" of new FOs as you so firmly declare. In the last 18 months, recruitment has quite definitely involved the greater proportion of fATPL holders, with those new pilots coming from 3 schools. The first MPL course only joined the company at this time last year.
As for the assertion that company recruitment policy is MPL courses, I suggest you pop along and have a chat with the DFO - clearly he has been misinformed and doesn't know half as much as you. His publicly stated intention is to continue to recruit a mixture of traditional fATPL pilots and MPL pilots, but what would he know?
