Finishing your master before ATPL ??
My son wants to become a pilot. He is at this moment doing a Master in Management in The Netherlands which is complete June 2026.
During this summer (2025) he is doing his PPL. His preference is to stop the master and start immediate with the full ATPL, but me (as his financial sponsor) says that I prefer him to have his master first, just in case he doesn't get a job as pilot or get later in life a medical issue and can't be a pilot anymore. His view is... i am getting too old... (He will be 25 when he start his ATPL).
Any view out here.. Stop his master, and go straight to ATPL.. or do it my way and first have a study which he can use in case all fails.. Will airlines like favourable to candidates with a master... or will they not care.. and is (young) age more important ?