Originally Posted by
Ver5pen
for once let the U.K. aviation market be profitable for U.K. residents and nationals, we are behind in almost every aspect to our peers in Europe yet are amongst the most productive pilots in the continent
But this policy isn't doing that. British Airways and to a lesser extent Virgin are seemingly so desperate that as long as you've got the CAA license, they're more than happy to sponsor a visa for non-Brits to come and work in the UK because they can't find enough people. And there are a small but seeminly not insignificant (since it keeps getting brought up) number of British people who for whatever reason ended up only holding EASA licenses, who would probably apply for those jobs if they weren't being told by the CAA that they needed to completely take again a complete ATPL theory course to convert a license which, if we're being honest, has little functional or syllabus difference, along with a number of people considering entry into the profession who have limited budgets and know that their likely entry is Ireland's unofficial airline and that they'll need to get an EASA license and can't budget for more than that, and then they are locked out of every other job in the UK as the price of entering the profession.