Swept.
I am sure your last paragraph was not intended to slur all the high quality SFOs at easyJet who have accumulated 1,000s of hours at the company and are working their way up the Command process.
The change in the origin of our new recruits from a predominantly low hours cadet intake to more of a mixture is not because we will run out of suitable command candidates in the next few years. Based on our planned expansion rate over the next few years we will continue to have highly capable, experienced and known candidates in our Command holding pool for several years before they are given a start date for their upgrade course. Anyone joining now will have 5+ years before a change of seat regardless of experience and ability. I personally believe it will be the start of the next decade before anyone recruited now will swap seats. The change of recruitment policy is driven by other factors but have nothing to do with running out of quality SFOs.