If this world had to be the way we want it in terms of not paying for a TR etc, then we shouldnt have even started by paying for the pilot training in a beginning. Why on earth do you get scholarships on almost all degrees or careers if you are good and capable for so and there is no way of getting it on this profession ( unless military).
We started paying to get inside an airline since day one of our CPL course, whether you pay more or less, instructor course, hours in the US or a TR it comes out to be the same but only more or less money spent. Its the same as getting a degree in something and then getting a master on it, only that in this world and in these times unlike other careers WE have to pay for it. What im trying to say is that if we want airlines to pay for us for the TR we might as well want them to pay for our pilot training course too.
In some countries in Asia they recruit you when you finish school, after passing certain levels of profficiency in some subjects and prooving your will and capability of becoming a good learner, they then pay for your entire career from day1 until you are sitting on the right seat of their company( problem is you have to be national from their country). So why dont we fight for that?
To start to criticize anyone who has payed for their TR etc, better start by bringing up why should we pay for a pilot training career, Spend up to 45000 quid or more in a career, which I find that amount of money embarrasing, and you have done it, we have all done it, even the ones who are really capable and good in this, also paid for it. So what on earth is the difference of paying more for a TR , instructor license, hours in the US, or whatever if we agreed to enter in this unfair and uncertain cycle since we started paying.
The bottom end is we all want to get hired asap, fulfil our dream and forget about this struggle to get in.
Softbutter landings to all and the best of luck!
