Originally Posted by
Alex Whittingham
"Would big ATO’s not strike a deal with Airlines like EasyJet to prioritise their future fresh graduates first?"
But what on earth could the ATOs offer to the airlines to make that deal stick? Ryanair have shown that you can get good pilots from both integrated and modular, there is NO difference.
There may not be any difference in quality but there is a difference in how much people pay.
My modular training cost £70k vs £100k+ that integrated students are paying. How much of that £70k is profit? More importantly how much of the £100k+ is profit?
What’s stops integrated schools looking to stay afloat / keep their reputation from offering some kind of legal “kickback” out of their profit margin to partner airlines ?
So you’ve got 2 freshly trained pilots; both with licences, both with their heads screwed on. One is modular and the other is from an integrated school who’s offering a £10k bounty to the airline that takes them on
Which graduate would the airline take ? They’re both of a high calibre but one stands to earn them £10k.
£10k might not seem a lot but when you multiply that by how many pilots they’ve needed up to now...