Originally Posted by
allert
Predicting the aviation job market is a tad far fetched I know, but so far it does look good for those that make the grade and pass the interviews. A frozen ATPL doesn’t automatically qualify someone for an airline job. It all depends on their suitability for it and if people fail, that’ll hopefully inspire them to work harder until they succeed.
I personally know dozens of people post flight school this year who have secured airline jobs because of hard work and thorough preparation.
Lots of the discussion for fATPLs are centred around spending 100k and getting a job after 2 years.
It’s pretty much the discussion here. But then we walk that back and say well actually no.
well the actually no is a pretty big part of that. And we shouldn’t be encouraging people to spend the best part of 100k to turn around and tell them, oh no you don’t actually get an airline job? Oh you can’t get one, tough, try harder.
You might know dozens but again, confirmation and survivorship bias.
For those working in Tesco I don’t doubt their ability but I would guess it’s a job of expedience. I can’t exactly share a huge data set here but I can see from a quick recruiter search at least a type of profile of a seeking work fATPL holder.
combine that with the journeys that people have shared and those that did not make it and moved in, it seems reckless to me to tell people to just spend 100k and you’ll be fine.
That is just an absurd amount of money to be telling a stranger to spend.
At best the responsible thing to share is your own story, maybe an anecdote on someone else but that it may take many many years and you will spend many many more thousands then quoted and yes you may have to work other jobs. To dismiss that experience is irresponsible.