Flash8,
-"The purchasing of line time effectively makes you a prostitute (harsh words but well deserved) and the airline a customer and the "training" organisation a pimp."
I think it would be fair to say that you've got things messed up somewhat!
A prostitute
makes money by providing a "service", which logically would mean that in the business of buying line-training, the "prostitute" would have to be the airline handing out the "service"! Right?!
The middle-man ( be it Eaglejet or Bond, or whatever their names may be) connecting the student and the airline (prostitute) in order to get some business going, would then have to be the pimp. Right?
That leaves the student (the buyer of "services", the customer), and I don't know what the UK name for that is.
In Sweden we call them "torskar". Simply because they get hooked!
"Torsk" is a fish and I think that the english word would be "cod" or "haddock". Not sure though..... (please don't take my licences away if, God forbid, I've been mistaken!)
PicMas,
You need to realize that there is no "waiting line" for
the job. Never has been. Hence, there can be no "elbowing"!