The reason why FlyBE cannot retain their pilots boils down to one thing. No muppet is going to hang around earning less than 30k for 5 or more years, especially with a huge loan to pay off. And as you get older, you will be settling down, marriage, a house+mortgage. How can anyone cope?
As has been mentioned many times before, the FlyBE MAPS scheme should be the most economically unviable option out there for those who will need to take out a loan. All your loan repayments will be made from your (after tax) salary. Just look on
www.ppjn.com for the current salary scale, I've been earning more than a 5 year FlyBE Turboprop FO salary for two years as a mere IT bod, and I'm still only 24. Career or no career, although I've been wanting it all my life I'm prepared to wait another 6 years if I have to but will never succumb to schemes such as the above. If they considered Modular students, I'd think differently.