Astraeus - FYI
This is all second hand, but I have heard that of the 4 people to complete the 737 rating at Astraeus recently...
1 got hired by Britannia - only to fail on Britannia's own training course
1 has moved on to line training
1 has been told that he has to get line training before he can be hired anywhere
... and 1 got hired in his native Iceland (how many of us speak Icelandic??!!)
I have also heard that most of the jet training businesses and airlines are short of training captains, capable of doing line the subsequent training anyway.
Just thought you would want to know...