It's more to do with expectations. Pre covid, I think Ryanair still charged but it was significantly less than 30k. Also pre covid there were far fewer jet experienced people looking at Ryanair for a job and a newbies chances of ongoing employment were much better than now.
Ryanair has no need for new pilots and most of these wannabes know that, but choose to play roulette with bank of mum and dads money anyway.
Last edited by Climb150; 28th Jul 2021 at 18:09.