Originally Posted by
flyingintheclouds
A key point to note is who you want to work for at the end of it.
easyJet and CAE are pretty hand in hand but they have also taken from L3 recently. Haven’t heard of them taking any FTE students.
As mentioned go for both EASA and U.K. licences if you can, this will keep the door open to go to Ryanair.
Of course there are more places to go than ezy/ryr but these are the two big frequent hirers and the most likely way to the RHS.
Also to be honest there’s no good/bad time to start training, you’re going to have Atleast an 18-24 month lead time and as the past few years have shown anything can happen.
The easyjet/CAE thing is a good point given I live next to Gatwick so I would aim to start my career with them to be honest (shamelessly live with parents for a year or two so as to afford a house deposit) - I dare say though that if they're hiring from L3, which I understand to have a less than stellar reputation at this point, they're likely to look to hiring from FTE as well? I know in 2017 they were hiring FTE graduates, but 2017 may as well be 1000 years ago with what's happened since, and I can't seem to find any information since.
The whole 'a licence is a licence' thing was mentioned so I'm not quite sure whether CAE actually gives a tangible advantage insofar as easyjet is concerned, but I guess training next to the MPLs must confer something.
I would have gone for the easyJet MPL but, without wishing to sound too cynical, I don't want to be shafted if easyJet decide they can't afford to take on all their graduates or enter financial troubles before I hit 1500hrs - whether my cynicism is misplaced or not I don't know but the two things I see often here are modular good (which I know, but can't do) and MPL bad (which I know, and can avoid)!
If we take it from the perspective of "I want to work for easyJet" which is somewhat accurate, would you say CAE is the wiser choice regardless of whether FTE provided better training?