Excellent post Luke.
I saw the writing on the wall when Ryanair started charging £50 to read your CV. I can’t think of a more blatant p!ss-take, and if everyone at the time had refused to pay up, the idea would have lasted five minutes. But no, the combined ranks of the naive and desperate handed over their cash, and off down the slippery slope we all went.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, if MoL’s terms and conditions were the future, I wouldn’t even try to get into this industry. No amount of ‘prospects’ or 737NG time would make me bend over for that man.
However, I don’t believe his Victorian mill-owner conditions will prevail – it’s simply that the job market in recent years has allowed him to get away with it. Ultimately though it’s self-destructive, and I’m sure eventually it will come back and bite him.