Luke
sounds like good training for some of the places that easy and JMC go to! Seriously though, and before anyone asks, I have no knowlege of the nuts and bolts of the school, its aircraft or its home, and I'm sure we'd all welcome whatever intelligence we can gather.
Sally
as I understand it, your summary is correct. I don't know if you could apply for all three, but I see no reason why not. I assume you would make your application in three different places (the websites of the individual companies), and that, to me, is no different to applying for BA, Britannia and flyBE on the same day.
carb
Sorry mate, but life's tough like that. You have to keep your eyes on all the balls if you're to make the most of your opportunities. As it happens, you're still OK for the JMC scheme - but there are many, many Wannabes a good deal older than you who will never have the chance of a sponsorship. That's because they, like you, decided to do something else with their lives at the age that these things are offered. It's nothing new, and the facts on which this principle of training young are based have been well known (and indisputable) for many years.
Waypoint
The type-rating scheme is, as far as I know, an in-house easyJet thang and has nothing to do with CTC-McAlpine. I can't see why there would be any age limit in particular, but they may state something like 'age commensurate with hours'. This would be similar to many expat-hiring airlines that insist on 'hours commensurate with age', and avoids 58-year olds with 600 hours applying. What they'll be looking for is people who can offer not just the five years of the bond in service, but probably at least five years in a command after that. That means that it's unlikely that anyone over, say, 45 would be eligible. But that's just my guess - for the definitive answer, you'll have to watch the easyJet website. Unless WWW can help?