For a long time now people (Wannabes) have complained that to get an airline job you had to:
a) Have no experience whatsoever and get lucky with a sponsorship/cadet deal,
OR
b) Have loads of experience in the form of an unfrozen ATPL and probably a commercial type rating.
Now easyJet have come up with a) a full cadet sponsorship scheme which also b) taking experienced airline pilots with a 737 ticket.
BUT, also they come up with a scheme for people with 500 - 1500hrs and no type rating. Hurrah! Every man jack instructor, hours builder or other Wannabe have a shot at taking a short cut to the RHS of the countries second biggest airline.
Do you need any cash to apply? - NO.
You sign some papers and a bank shuffle £23,000 into easyJets account, which they then spend on your type rating. You start flying with easyJet and the bank calls asking for £1,000 a month please. Which is a bit of a bummer.
Oooh, hang on!
easyJet are slipping a grand a month (tax free) into the old salary slip. And will continue to do so until the bank goes away and leaves me alone.
So thats quite nice then.
Much better than say getting a turboprop job for 3 years on £20k - £25k and *then* moving on to a jet job.
Addressing the thread topic directly - I would suggest your husband should apply to Ryanair and easyJet as these are the only two airlines in the UK who have a significant recruitment need in the near future. Once employed with either it will be far easier to move to another airline of choice.
Cheers,
WWW