As well as the RYR figures I’d strip out the Easyjet figures as well as anyone that OAA has provided to them over the past couple of years will no doubt be on short term flexi-crew contracts, as always there are lies, damn lies and then there are statistics. While the OAA statistics do not openly lie they are a very distorted view of the truth.
I completely agree with that fact OAA stats are far far from the truth.
(They included people in their stats as getting Jobs with Cathay.. what actually happened was that these guys couldn't find jobs in EU land so had to head off to the other side of the world to do ALL their training again, to become Cathay Second Officers..)
However, i disagree with the easyJet figures.
I and many many of my colleagues are now all on very good, permanent contracts with easyJet with a good future ahead of us.
And the flexi contracts aren't short term either..