wiggy
Explains why I came across so many Chinese staff working for Finnair when in Helsinki.
"I really am astonished at how broken the funding system is for pilot training, and that nothing seems to be done about it. If it cost over 100k upfront to become a doctor or teacher there would be an outrage (and rightly so)."
Who will fund it? Other than for the air force and when legacy airlines were owned by their respective governments, the governments have never really gotten involved in what is a private qualification. I can't see the transport department allocating anything to it when there are so many funding training on their own, and that supply of people is unlikely to dry up ... we're on our own and should plan accordingly.