Ah, but what is even more interesting is sitting next to some of the SSTR pilots after they have had the job for 12-18months. They then start to complain that the pay/conditions are not what they thought they would be!!!
Well of course they aren't, the whole idea of SSTR is to pull the bottom out of the market in favour of the employers and degrade all of our pay and conditions.
Sorry fact is, as long as wannabes keep stumping up the cash, companies will keep offering them, and we will fall even further behind other professions. And unfortunately we are doing this to ourselves!!