Oh no, not another 'pilot shortage' thread.
Now that Buzz is being folded into Ryanair, that takes out yet another player hiring in the UK job market. They were making noises about hiring fairly aggressively this year.
The whole bottom end of the market appears to be consolidating around the two big low-cos, who have a standardised recruitment policy designed to save them money today rather than develop pilots for tomorrow, to the detriment of the smaller turboprop airlines that traditionally were the first rung on the ladder for self-improvers.
IMHO all these are bad developments for the many hundreds if not thousands of self-improvers currently looking for jobs in the UK.
I wouldn't recommend that anyone tries to get into this industry at the moment, because, 18 months on from Sep-11, it appears to be going from bad to worse.
cheers!
foggy.