Good post Wingswinger. As usual for Pprune there are some great theories out there but Ezy clearly have a metric, dreamed up by some boffin, which they are basing their cut off on. I am still awaiting a PFO but secretly hoping for something more positive.
As for those denigrating Ezy, all the Ezy drivers I have spoken to enjoy the job and the company. They work hard with some long days and some short days. The training is solid, the company fair and (provided they are on a perm contract) the money is good. Yes their recruitment tactics over the last 5 years have been questioned by most but now they have realised their SFOs recruited during that period have not got the skillset for Command and now they are doing something about it. Let us hope that this is the start of a wider recruitment drive for non-TR pilots.
Ex-mil 3500TT 2500 fighters