I get the impression that, should the majors expand, there'll be the oft-mentioned "hoover effect", and quite a few of the LCO boys and girls will be off
easyJet and Ryanair *are* some of the majors these days. BA will need to recruit but leaving another airline to go to the bottom of BA's seniority list is not a route I can see great swells of pilots following.
I think the CTC scheme is symptomatic of the streamlining that has occurred in industry over the last decade. There simply aren't the staff to organise and run an in house selection process for significant numbers of FO's. Like many HR functions if it can be outsourced it will be. Which is what CTC is doing - providing a specialist HR service to airlines.
Also there are far more people out there looking for jobs these days.
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