Originally Posted by
thebeast121
I think you forgot that even ATPL students suffered like the MPL it was not a matter of license it was a matter of no job opportunities anyway no matter what the license is. If you switched to ATPL back in 2020 you would have paid 50K more for absolutely nothing.
I agree that the job offer is CONDITIONAL, but give me one person who graduated the EZY MPL course with an acceptable training record and is now not employed by easyJet.
I understand that everyone in the industry faced the issue of no employment opportunities. But with an ATPL you would be employable when the market recovers. No other airline would accept a zero hours MPL holder tied to a different operator. That is why students had little option but to switch to an ATPL when in possession of a letter revoking their job offer with no initial opportunity of a hold pool.
Some MPL students approached other A320 operators asking if employment was an option when things recovered and they were swiftly turned away. So it was far more limiting..
Yes, those that continued the program as whitetail are hopefully all at the airline. But many who had to take the decision to switch were not able to afford the astronomical fees that were asked for by multiple schools.
It absolutely would not have been “a wasted 50k” if you’re faced in a situation where your license (or lack of as you have no base training provider!) is unrecognised by other airlines. Continuing whitetail MPL, which wasn’t even a recognised term by the licensing authority pre-covid, was a financial gamble that one airline would survive the pandemic and recover to an extent where they recontacted those cadets that were dropped.