Flyergirl10 - I mean that for the first time a UK or Irish airline will open bases on the continent. This was not possible prior to JAA.
easyJet have ordered 120 airbus and they ain't going to be parked in the UK every night. Bases must be opened on the continent as Ryanair have already done in Brussels, Bergamo, Hahn and Scandanavia.
This is unprecedented as aviation used to be a tightly regulated national industry.
If someone like Ryanair or easyJet place ads for pilots to be based in Nice, Barcelona, Venice then that might in itself stimulate interest regardless of pay, conditons and terms.
I am sure night freight hand flying experience in over loaded turbo props is valuable. But. Any experience is valuable from whatever source. Indeed even the awareness that you have no experience and thus must strive to prove yourself is valuable.
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