Originally Posted by
TowerDog
No…
I worked as a pilot for 37 years and had 15 + flying jobs, none of my employers gave a hoot about my initial flight school.
Work history, licenses, flying hours and attitude counted much more.
Only caveat here is that for 14 of those airlines you were already a pilot so where you trained would indeed be utterly irrelevant.
OP, were it me I’d follow the advice of other posters here and go for the modular type school to leave a nice fat war chest for getting that type rating, moving around etc.
The pricey schools can be quite literally 40-50k extra. And you don’t see a cent of that. In fact, the integrated sugar factories have been beset by issues as you’ll read about on here. They have your money if you choose that route, very hard to back out so it’s in their interest to ensure they minimise the cost of your training to them, regardless of the impact on you.
They tend to be filled with a large amount of 19 year olds fuelled by the bank of mum and dad without real care or ownership of the money funding their training. Fancy instagram posts and silly Napoleon style epaulettes are all you really have to show for your extra 50K