Originally Posted by
MikeKilo2
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.
However not everyone company is the same. Turning down an offer from EZY is a big gamble in my opinion. And so far everyone who has completed the course is now employed with Easyjet…