What so 3 weeks ago they couldn't have applied for the DEC in NAP, OPO and AMS? Why should their 'bad luck' become my 'bad luck'? Sick and tired in this industry of this socialist mindset that other people's problens are everyone's problems. BMI pilots left BMI 9-6 years ago en masse to join Easyjet because they had foresight. It isn't just luck - as I said in another thread, luck is the venn diagram where opportunity and preparation coincide. Chance has a role in everything. Credit yourself with more intelligence - judgement is the tiny little decisions your brain is making without you realising it. I'm desperately sorry for people who may be out of a job and I can't help but feels genuine pangs in my heart and gut for them but there's a well paid job for them out in Qatar, Asia etc. which will even house them and pay for their kids education. Plenty of mil pilots had to do long tours, during or after their careers in Germany and the Middle East. It's the job food chain. Nothing is guaranteed - Easyjet might very well do a Tesco's in 3 years. Get rid of the lefty, over evolved mindset that there's more fat than there is (and thus giving it away) and be more risk averse - look after your FOs who've been here 5-7 years waiting for a command.