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Old 21st May 2020, 06:58
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portsharbourflyer
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Peter_Ahons, if you are worried about finishing training in a hiring wave then its best for you to stop flying now and go find a different industry.
In the last 20 years the only hiring boom was probably the previous 3 years just before the covid.

Anytime out side of that it was always difficult to get the first flying job, often people would have taken 3 to 5 years to find the first multi crew job in the period between 2000 to 2014 (the main exception to that were those placed by the integrated schools and those paying 30k to Ryanair for a rating). There was a small peak around late 2007 followed by the downturn in 2008.
I doubt we will see recruitment levels of the previous three years ever again (again based on the trend of the last 20 years then in 17 years time, who knows), and I will say this again the last three years was the exception not the normal, the last three years has given too many people a false perception of the industry. Flight training was always a gamble.
If you are single with no commitments then generally there are/will be opportunities somewhere at some point.
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