Why would people train for an industry that currently doesn't exist & is going to have to resized , restructured in a massive way
- Virgin laid off 1000 pilots , they get priority for re-employment until 2028, 40% paycut for those who remain
- QF Group likely have around 4500 pilots , they only need 10% of those atm & priority for next decade will be shuffling the excess around the group ,
- At least 2000 Australian pilots returning from jobs overseas & in many cases their jobs OS are permanently gone
- There are 4000 plus pilots in Australia who are currently "stood down" & facing possible redundancy
- 100s made redundant from Air NZ , Aussie airlines have always liked Kiwi pilots
- Every year 150 or so ADF pilots are eligible to leave , you will have to compete against them
- Shut down or cadetships by almost all the worlds Airlines (aside from China, as locals replacing expat)
- Flying schools in Australia face very uncertain future, so way way less instructor jobs
Have a look at the thread on SEA (Singapore flying schools) it is more sensible - this forum is all rose coloured glasses dogma
Don't get sucked in the "best time to train" nonsense, there are thousands of unemployed pilots in Australia now & unfortunately
that will remain the case for years. Difficult to think of a more useless qualification than a CPL/IR right now
The QF/Aviation Uni partnership was much over hyped, how many did actually get hired direct from Aviation Uni during the 4 year
pre-covid boom ? - relatively token number. Relatively recently CQU were "talking up" their new partnership with Qlink - for goodness sake
Qlink is largely grounded - quite incredible to be doing press releases at this time.
You expect private institutions to be full of misleading BS with their marketing, surprising how low the Uni's will stoop to make a buck
Think quite unethical for Aviation Unis to be "talking up their book" when the industry has collapsed & it is obvious
that it will emerge much smaller , years down the track. They have one motivation & one motivation only - achieving full enrolments & maximising
funding from Govt
10 months into Corona & the scorecard for Aussie airlines is domestic 5% ; international 0%.
I knew this was bad but I wasn't expecting or guess at this level of disaster
Not the time to be looking at cadetships , set up your plan B qualification/skill & look at it in a couple of years
This is not 1988 or 2008, the world aviation industry is grounded, there are 1000s of unemployed pilots in Australia now & the world is in
for a monster recession unfortunately