Excuse the ensuing naivety, as I can't quite see the bigger picture.
Ezy employ roughly 2000-2500 pilots so 1000-1200 fos. Lets say half are flexi, so 600.
Pay of roughly £40k a year, after ctc/parc take a cut. Put all the fos on perm contracts at the same as current f/os (roughly 50k). Thats 6 million out of the possible £320 million profit and now, quite remarkably you have a much happier workforce.
OK, so they want some flexibility, why not make new cadets do frv for 6/12/18 months before going on to this so that they will always have a number of guys on frv but there is light at the end of the tunnel.
Its fag packet maths and I know there is a lot more to it but what do I know