Bluepilot,
With respect, you are mixing apples with pears. Taking on cadets is one solution to a lack of bums on seats. Taking pilots with a little experience is another. The two are not incompatible. And when you have trumpeted a recruitment drive based on a mixture of the two, not to mention the military pilots they attempted to recruit, it is not fair to call it all off and then, when the dust settles, start recruiting only cadets as if those people waiting patiently in pools (or in between interviews) were never encouraged to apply and be interviewed or had their hopes raised.