There has never been as much recruitment onto the jet fleets of the UK and Eire as there has over the last few years.
There has never been a higher proportion of that recruitment favouring the cadet with no airline experience from just a few FTOs than during the same time.
There are more than enough decent pilots out there, with varying amounts of experience with good training records and a solid operational background that have passed through the high standard training team of any number of Airlines in the UK or even further afield.
Whichever way it is argued out, then logically the current recruitment set up in the UK doesnt stack up.
I have to say Bealzebub for your undoubted experience and articulation you are, as time moves on appearing to be promoting the routes favoured by one particular large FTO that is central to the current set up in the UK. Rightly or wrongly that is how you are coming across on this board.
I can accept you are trying to balance out the sea of negativity - caused in the main by frustration of those not necessarily clinging to the slippery rocks in the midst of the raging torrent of the stream of flight recruitment but quite possibly those slowly drowning in the stagnant pond of the current set up.
The current set up can only further degrade t's and c's for all. They are not going to drastically improve once the recession is behind us.