Hi Scraglad
In real terms, 15 grand X number of -200 pilots is not a lot. Maybe two or three million. Ryanair can certainly afford it. There is probably some mechanism where they can write off the cost of pilot training against tax. This is about power and control and bringing the fight to the pilots. As someone has already said, the cost of training the pilots is built into the cost of the aircraft and can probably be written off.I'm sure any accountant on these pages can enlighten us all...if Ryanair charge you 30plus grand to get a Type, how can they do it for 15 grand? Not to mention the disruption to the schedule when you take pilots offline to hit the books/sim for a month or so....this is the usual disinformation and lies from FR. It's purely to break the back of any organised resistance. Surely, these guys on the 200s have the tightest contracts out of all the FR pilots and MoL's side are trying to break their contracts from within. Any competent contracts lawyer would send MoL packing.
regards
TDD