What's wrong is wrong. It is wrong to pay for a type rating. What you'll find is most people were less vocal in their opposition in the past because the 'investment' actually had a return and you were not directly screwing colleagues (and your future self) over. Right now it does not have a return. An individual subscribing to this scheme is the reason the pilots who joined before them (even cadets who paid the 30k) are going to be sitting at home idle, because line training of the next batch will be prioritised. You are basically paying into a system that works against all of your colleagues and in 6 months time will be working against you too. If you don't believe this then speak to pilots in RYR, they'll tell you the roster reality of how this is working.
This was not the case in the past and again, you cannot compare the two. This is why you're finding much more vocal opposition on here and on Linkedin than 10 yrs ago.
16,800 basic without the right to work, not even worthy of being a company employee. McDonalds are literally paying more. It is scandalous how anyone thinks this is a salary befitting of qualified pilots, let alone pilots themselves lowering themselves to it. All pilots everywhere should be furious, especially those just out of school.
They are essentially saying to you that after everything you have invested in this career you're only worth 16,800 to us. That is an insult of gigantic proportions.
dashcam on this forum there was actually opposition to the RYR scheme and the 'flexicrew' scheme offered by EZY at the time around 10 yrs ago, this isn't new, however right now things are pretty aggravated for reasons I needn't mention