Maxalt, Are you f@#$ing kidding me? After they paid for their training, wages and living expenses while they were training. Pretty good deal I would have said.
It might've been if the training was actually completed - and they'd been employed, as advertised.
But they weren't, were they.
Those guys went through selection procedures chosen by ALT. They probably represented the top 3% - 5% of the applicant group. Some had careers already which they resigned from, others dropped out of university to accept ALT's offer.
In short, we aren't talking about beggars lifted off the street here, so spare us the boot licking, forelock tugging inferences about what they were entitled to expect.
If you think that having gotten half way into a Cadet Course, which you've dropped out of university, or resigned your job for, only to be turfed out, is a 'pretty good deal' - you are sadly infected with the very mindset that has dragged our professional status into the gutter by devalueing pilots to the equivalent of 'charity cases' or 'hangers on', or a 'potential source of training income' - as in the Ryanair application fee/ type rating fee scam.
Its a two way street mate. ALT selected them and invested in them, expecting a healthy return down the line.
I'm not saying ALT weren't right to drop the trainees under the circumstances, but I'm amazed anyone would want to work for them afterward, much less give up yet another career to take achance on it happening again.