So if you had a freshly minted CPL/IR in hand, you would gladly stay in the dole queue rather than kick start your career with Ryanair assuming there was no other option? It seems hard to believe that someone would be so noble in the face of having their career, potentially permanently, put on hiatus. Are we also supposed to believe that someone who, through sheer circumstance and good fortune ended up in a pleasant company enjoying generous T&Cs that their predecessors have fought for, are simply made of sterner stuff - if they were to end up in the position of a Ryanair pilot, their unstoppable willpower and sense of decency would stop the rot, not like those thousands of cowards who currently work there, sobbing during the pushback, absolutely incapable of improving their situation because they lack the cast iron balls of those gentlemen aviators in Air Utopia.