My understanding is that the next time Thomson recruit low hrs cadets the application will be open to anyone with CPL MEIR and medical regardless of where they trained and whether they're integrated or modular. This is different from recent years when all low hrs cadets were CTC Wings graduates. By doing this Thomson have reduced the number of cadet places that used to be CTC only, of course CTC Wings graduates can apply but hopefully they'll be competing in open and fair competition with other integrated cadets from different schools and also modular graduates. The biggest selling point and major justification for the extra expense of n integrated school is that their graduates can get access to cadet schemes that their modular colleagues cannot get access to. The standard of training at an integrated school is no better (or worse) than at a modular school and you get exactly the same licence at the end of it. One less cadet scheme exclusively for integrated cadets levels the playing field for everyone else and erodes the biggest advanage of the integrated course. If other airlines follow Thomsons lead and open up cadet entry to integrated and modular fair competition there will come a time when integrated has no advantage (real or perceived) over modular and that will be a very dangeous time for the integrated schools who will have to rely more on their modular courses that they offer.