Avaiden,
This is not directed at you, as you seem to have a realistic attitude on the matter.
Wearing a suit to an interview is not sucking up to a supplier. Airlines are very conservative and demand a high degree of conformity. Get used to it or seek another career. There is much debate on here about various FTO graduates' employment success rate, but one thing prospective students should keep in mind is that though you are a customer, at the end you will also be their "product" and both you and the FTO want an airline to "buy" that "product." People only become an FTO's customer because they seek a specific job and they have decided a particular FTO will help them get the license they need to get that job.
For many school leavers, the FTO selection interview is perhaps the first real interview you will have. My tuppence would be ignore the poor advice given by a few here and treat it as a serious event, even if only for practice sake. You are paying a lot of money for it, why set yourself up for failure by adopting a rebellious stance or by making a political point that you are the "customer."
Finally, most FTOs include team exercises in their selection process. If all the others show up in a suit and you don't, you'll feel very out of place and it will negatively affect your performance.
Last edited by Adios; 22nd Jul 2007 at 21:39.