As I have mentioned in my posts before I am aiming for the people who provide the securing Capital.
Aiming for?
Presumably you mean people like my colleagues and friends who provide the securing capital for their own kids to utilize these programmes. Is this "aiming for" designed to protect them or simply attack them? In either case it is pointless, they know the risks better than anybody else and they see the results first hand. For people without the advantage of that perspective, the advice or comments on these forums provide the same tools to help them come to whatever decision they also choose to make.
It is interesting that the people with the best vantage point to see these programmes for what they are, are usually the ones utilizing them and providing the
securing capital. You would imagine they wouldn't touch them with a bargepole with that breadth of knowledge wouldn't you? Yet they do. I wonder why!
Major carriers use these schemes for their apprenticeship pilot programmes. Even the national flag carrier uses them for its re-launched and long established cadet programme. In fact that same carrier (the subject of this thread) goes so far as to provide
securing capital where required. Are you
aiming for them as well?
You seem to have this bizzare notion that people who cannot utilize these cadet paths are somehow immune from debt, or have cleverly self financed themselves into a parallel training structure with the same oportunities. I assume you are not a parent, because if you were, you would know only too well how reliant your offspring are on your "securing capital," whether that be for education, training, transport and almost everything else! Parents also evolve a set of survival instincts borne out of their offsprings needs and demands, that very rarely puts them in the jeopardy that you might think it does.
I hope that the "stepping stone" jobs prosper and multiply. I hope that more and more people without the luck or resource to obtain a cadetship find these opportunities. I hope that the process enables as many determined and resourceful people as possible to find their way to the career that they want. The problem is, that isn't how the industry has evolved. You yourself acknowledged this when you stated:
All the jobs they are suited for are now sown up with cadets and if you don't even pass the starting post your not allowed to play.
I wouldn't entirely agree with your statement, but accepting it in essence it is why I advise that people do a lot of research, and make very considered choices. When you or somebody like you gets the opportunity to jump from the
stepping stones on to the eventual plateau they might regard as an end goal, you are very likely to find yourself sitting to the right of, being interviewed by, or working under the direction of, the same people who succesfully utilized the routes you elect to denigrate.
Whether you choose to believe that or not, I can promise you it is a fact of life these days.