I don't understand why we are looking for someone to blame? It's the TREs fault, Easyjet captains' fault, BALPA's fault, Easyjet management's fault, CTC's fault, the baby pilot's fault!!!? Who cares? The industry I'd on its a**e and going downhill fast. What we need to look for is an answer to stop and eventually reverse the trend. Just look at recruitment in the US at the moment. There are still contractors and recruitment companies in a scramble to grab the 1500+ hour guys to freelance but, those guys with 1500+ hours are not normally dragging a £100,000+ debt behind them and so have more bartering room. The offers are already increasing as the deadline draws nearer. By the time it arrives those companies without the foresight to recruit early are gonna have to try to prise pilots from other airlines and how will they do that?