@jedro A factor influencing your preception may be that it is largely the integrated ATOs that have stands at Pilot Careers Live etc and that being the case you are going to hear the message that airlines prefer to recruit integrated studes, as Mandy Rice-Davies would say, "they would say that, wouldn't they?". You get a more balanced view if you can talk to the airline recruiters themselves. Andy O'Shea in particular, ex Head of Training of Ryanair, spent several years saying that Ryanair hired from both integrated and modular without preference and was emphatic that there was no measurable difference in output quality between the two. Easyjet's Cadet of the Year a couple of years ago was a modular student, once one of mine. They have a long history of recruiting modular when their integrated pipelines (inevitably) start to fail, as we hear the latest CAE effort is doing now. BA are quite clear that they will accept applications equally from integrated and modular students (despite the advertising from big ATOs which suggests otherwise) and have in fact been VERY selective about which integrated ATOs they use for their 60 fully sponsored cadets for reasons which will be obvious to those that follow these forums. JET2 also have no preference. Integrated ATOs spend lots of money on advertising.