Originally Posted by
Uplinker
To gain an ATPL(A) licence and an appropriate type rating - the minimum required for an airline to even look at you - will cost you around £120,000 these days, I believe. (And no guarantee of passing all the tests).
This is nonsense. Cancel that, complete nonsense.
To get an airline job you only need a frozen ATPL (CPL, MEIR and MCC/JOC). You definitely do not need an ATPL or a type rating. Obviously having them as well is helpful, but there are plenty of airlines that will pay for the type rating. To get a modular fATPL from scratch will cost £40k but in your case probably more like £20-25k as you need no hour building.