Originally Posted by
Chauderon
There is an issue here of an airline appearing to promote diversity, whilst for many years recruiting school leavers via CTC / L3 with the family means to pay 100K+ for their training. How socially and economically diverse is the group of young pilots who have the family backing to pay this?
Companies only care about diversity you can see: sex, race, age etc
Doesn’t matter whether your parents are millionaires or from a council estate. Once you have a uniform on there’s no telling your background so why bother increasing diversity that can’t be virtue signalled ?
Whenever you see a group photo of new starter pilots on social media being promoted (usually 6-8 white males) someone always comments “it would be nice to see more females” or “it would be nice to see more people of colour”. No one ever comments “They all look rich, it would be nice to see someone from a council estate in Barnsley” because that can’t be determined from a photo and therefore the airline can’t receive negative comments