'About 50% overall failure-rate, is what I've heard from a Ryanair captain.'
Does this mean after completing the type rating and paying £20,000+ 50% of people get the chop? seems very high to me considering the extra financial comittment and screening/ assesssment that has already taken place.
Do many of these 50% find other 737 jobs? or are they just swallowed up by a mountain of debt never to be seen again?