Originally Posted by
TRENT210
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...
I suppose the question to ask in that situation would be, will students pay the premium knowing that the kickback is in place, or will they still take their chances and save money by going modular? And would there be sufficient students taking the integrated option to provide the schools with sufficient revenue to stay afloat?