Having read this thread i'm interested to know if school status does come into play? For example i have heard of airlines going to oxford, cabair and jerez to get their future pilots, and i have heard that they generally only take the APP guys. However thats not to say that if you are in the right place at the right time with no APP students near completion that being at the school having just finished your IR will get you an interview, or an i just being silly to think that airlines would even look at inexperienced modular guys when they having 1000000 C.V.'s sitting on their desk?
Looked at aerofan and for price and actual airtime it seems to be amazing value, as far as aviation goes. However i do subscribe to the thought process whereby an instructor who speaks english as a second or third language would be in a worse position than an instructor who speaks english as a first language, but i'd rather have an amazing instructor who speaks fluent english as a fifth language than an average instructor who speaks english as a primary language, it really is luck of the draw.
Ultimately if you are going to do your cpl/ir the likelyhood is you want to get into the airlines, and as a modular student, would it be detrimental to your future career to spend the money going to a school without the reputation of jerez and oxford, who apparently treat their modular students like s@@t, haven't been so wouldn't know, or would it be an advantage to spend the money getting actual flying experience?