My mistake. And I'm not being sarcastic. Ok, so with all the selection procedures that take place to get into CTC, someone who scraped through initial training wouldn't get in. But I was trying to make the point that money could be the deciding factor between two candidates, one who has the correct personality and attitude to working in an airline, and the other who perhaps doesn't, but has the money to get in.
Oh, and as far as going on to full FO wages after 6 months, I had a friend who went the CTC way and got a job with Easy. It took 6 months before she actually got any wages. So pay up £6000, get a type-rating, get a job, but we won't give you any money for 6 months. Might not be the same now, but she sure as hell struggled to pay bills etc whilst working for no money. Oh, and those first 6 months of working, she didn't accumulate any holiday time either.