Being a turncoat and having persued a self funded line training on MYT as far as signing up to it ( I bailed out after susccessful selection at GECAT) and then flirted with GECAT, bailed out of that too as someone offered to pay me a salary to do my TR and a permy job to boot. I now have changed my mind with these paying to work schemes. Have a little patience, apply to companies who would recruit inexperienced folk, not to everyone, which is a waste of time. I have managed to find a job which TR and LT is all paid for; this paying to work lark is utter madness! Be patient network like never before and don't pay for ANY line training. TR self sponsored is one thing but don't pay to work the line. Every airline is taking its example from the airlines who do this, MYT, FR etc.. It's wrong and is pure exploitation. Choose carefuly which TRTO you go to as well. Some give no help in placements and a TR with zero hours is worth diddly.
Alas there are some airlines who think this is wrong too and thank goodness. I'm joining one of them. To be honest a huge number of airlines are now recruiting people direct with no TR. As a result the likes of GECAT have a massive backlog in placing their swimmers.