So what? I don't see the significance of this? THY, like any airline with ambitious expansion plans, needs pilots. Whilst their package may be 'last resort' stuff to the westerner it may not be so bad to others? I have no experience of THY and I'm making general assumptions based by what is said here on pprune. That's always quite dangerous. In the last 12 months I have 'learned' that I should avoid THY like the plague, Emirates will work you to death, Cathy Pacific are third rate yet Qatar have got their act together and Ryanair are now worth considering. One man's paradise is another man's nightmare and all that!!