The place is populated by old geezers topping up their large final salary pensions, or rather suspect operators.
By that, I assume you really mean, very experienced captains with a long and obviously succesful career behind them with a variety of
legacy airlines?
Anyway, I am pleased to hear the cadet standard is getting crap, since it means they will fail selection everywhere else.
That doesn't appear to be what is happening. In fact more seem to be getting selected by a variety of established and new operators including easyjet, British airways, Monarch, DHL, Cathay Pacific and Qatar airways.
How come every Ezy F/O has their sights set on BA? With only 250 places available for DEPs, an awful lot are going to be disappointed in the coming years.
yes, possibly. Presumably thus depriving them of a decent pension and the chance to top it up with a training position at CTC and other fine training establishments?