I instructed for the mighty Cabair for 3 years, that was over 6 years ago.
I'm not surprised to hear nothing has changed .....
A great bunch of hard working loyal instructors run by two directors (Theafcoat and Greed) who have NO RESPECT AT ALL FOR THEIR EMPLOYEES ....
I meet many ex Cabair instructors in the airlines and not one has a good word to say about the management there.
Re. BA/CCAT they used to share a/c between Elstree and Cranfield (Elstree for busy weekends PPL training and Cranfield for weekday commercial training), this policy never worked in practice. It relied on Friday and Sunday evenings being good WX for ferry flights and people to fly them, usualy instructors unpaid or PPL's desperate for hours .....
DH (God bless him ! Where is he nowdays ?)did an excellent job at winning the BA contract, depite BA paying millions to Cabair they failed to invest at CCAT an still ran it on a shoe string ....
Typical Cabair doesnt realise people talk about them when they leave (instructors and students ...... word gets around ).
At the end of the day the instructors and quality of courses good, BUT the management stink !