Are they using the C182s they brought over from Australia (I think they were based at a school in Adelaide in the Oxford days)?
Or are PA28s being shipped over from Arizona for use at Oxford, Madrid, Brussels and Norway? With the poor old £ buying €1.10 if you are lucky and not much better with the dollar then your cheap, non-EASA offshore location becomes...Oxford!
I still don’t get why they bother with ab-initio flight training though, unless it was just for ME airlines at £150-200k per student. Margins are much higher on sims and the sales they have to the worlds Ministry of Defeats.
So the future student has groundschool at Gatwick, VFR flying at Oxford, IR in Oslo/Brussels/Madrid, and then APS/MCC back in Gatwick?