very true
POL1W
absolutely, when I was there the standard procedure was for OAT to put forward students of their own choice to airlines and fob the rest of us off with nonsence like "those who met the criteria have been selected, and we can't tell you what the criteria are..." bla bla bla, even though those selected were by no means exceptional nor even similar types of people. seems the only criteria for getting into OAT itself is having the £. I got myself a job and if I'd gone to my local flying school I'd have saved thousands and still got my job.
If ever there was an organisation surviving as you say on image and image alone it's OAT.