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Lafyar
Jet A1 price two days ago £1.00 per litre
Jet A1 price today £1.00 per litre
Jet A1 price two years ago 50p per litre
I manage an lumpy bizjet and can confirm that the fuel price has not shown any negative trend for 3 YEARS its the rate of increase that has speeded up hence everybody has noticed.
If by your post you are trying to put a positive spin on the current situation by oil price I suggest that you look a little further back than two days.
I deiberately have kept out of these downturn threads, dying to come out with some great words to give wannabees everywhere a good headshake....
safe to say that people like www and myself are from the same generation, mid to late 90's doing the old CAA exams, BCPL, instruct for 500 hours / 18months then multi and then IR - CPL at 700hrs. Then and only then did you feel confident enough to apply for jobs, cant speak for www but in my case it nearly 4 years after qualifying that I found myself in a simulator for a type rating.
Guys those 4 years were HARD.
prior to JAR the ability to get into a 737 after 12 months training was really available to an elite few, sons of BA captains, rugby club captains. The course was £30k and nobody could afford it, everybody did the self improver route CAP509 ers were a rarity.
Those that have seen it, struggled with years of instruction, waiting for a break and have come through who are now captains are ideally placed now to give the advice you read in these threads because we have most recently experienced the depressing downturn that is (to anybody that was around in the late 90's, early 2000, 9/11) staring us in the face.
All this talk of economics is a sidebar to me. If you think you are going to qualify and get into a 737 anytime soon then you quite clearly have that little common sense that to be brutally frank you will probably struggle withthe job anyway.
If you do want to take www to task about economics then I read some previous threads, the forecasting of gulf War II being accurate,
When in 2003 www says train train train its never been so good and everybody did and got on with easy and FR, nobody was calling into question his motives and commitment to wannabees and the forum. Now that the sermon has changed everybody is bitching, it is classic head in the sand syndrome.
Keep your powder dry do the exams and see what happens and dont do anything stupid like remortgaging your mums house.
Long term captains in large airlines are battening down the hatches and just riding the storm, really what chance do you really think you are going to have with some seneca time and no experience when all airlines are trying to deal with just keeping the doors open.
PS www not blowing smoke up your arse, just trying to bring a bit of balance here. I can remember when G-Spots Lost was G-Spot before the great prune crash of 2002!!!
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