Seniority is everything in the airline world. The fact that you might have been a Wg Cdr and you joined after a Fg Off chopped under Cameron's cuts will gain you nothing....
Some might previously have been happy to put off a second career until they qualified for 'Experienced QSP' accreditation, happy to devote their efforts to the Service rather than studying for 14 exams, many of which have little relevance to day-to-day aircraft operation. If that meant sacrificing a few years of potential airline seniority, it was probably worth it for many.
But with that gone, the word I'm getting is that people consider there is absolutely no point in staying. If it's a choice between studying for ATPL exams, rather than doing the EWO course or WEC or ISSC (or whatever the present equivalents are), then the ATPL exams will now come first.
Unless, that is, greater efforts are devoted to restoring the immensely valuable 'experienced QSP' terms of JAR-FCL, which existed without any safety issue long before the insanity of EASA made its thoroughly unwelcome presence felt.
Last edited by BEagle; 11th Aug 2012 at 09:42.