Snail: I wouldn't know the answer to that. When I check there weren't as many of these tagged schemes around, but as you say there would clearly be a massive difference.
Smartguy: When I visited CTC last week I was told that their hold pool had been taken from 150 cadets down to around 30 cadets. I presume the vast majority of these went to EasyJet. Not sure what can be gleaned from this fact, but I thought it was worth putting out there.