I have no experience in corporate ops whatsoever but what on earth would make the recurrent so damn expensive ? Ok I get the fact there are only a few sims available in the world but still... it is a civilian jet, as much stuffed with super hi-tech equipment that it can be it still should not require so much money to run a web based CBT/learning and a 2 or 4 hours simulator session...
How do You end up spending 80k dollars ?! With that money You can get rated on 3 types of Airbus.