Originally Posted by
excrab
It was destroyed when companies like Astreus, Ryanair, EasyJet and all the others started to schemes where holders of fATPLs could get a type rating and then fly for 500 hours effectively for free in the hope of getting a permanent job. But even then those schemes wouldn’t have destroyed the profession and started a race to the bottom unless those fATPL holders hadn’t jumped on the band wagon to avoid working their way up through instructing, single crew air taxi, regional turboprops etc on the way to a shiny jet.
Did you and pilots with your level of experience do anything to stop such schemes when they started popping up?
Who was seating in the LH seat of a Ryanair flight 15 year ago, a 200h fATPL pilot or an experienced one?
Originally Posted by
excrab
why should I sacrifice what is left of my career to help you with yours
Nothing new here.