money
If it's money you want go do something that makes money. Even airline Captains don't make relatively BIG money anymore in real terms.
Even if all the schools put another £10 per hour onto the training and passed it all on to the instructor that would make the instructor another 4K per year or so. Problem i have seen is how exquisitely price sensitive the punters are. Truth is at even £10/hr more than the other lot down the road the punters are gone!!!(esp. the trial flight trade).
I really hope no-one here thinks the schools are coining it and exploiting the instructors who are getting paid in two ways.1. a bit of money and 2.experience to make them more employable.
There are two challenges for flying schools one is competing for the recreational pound from the punters and the other is delivering the training. What they need to do is pay the career instructors well enough to retain. I am afraid that even if they paid some of the transient instructors a billion pounds a day they would still be abandoned once Stelios/Branson et al discovered their talent! Why? because flying is VOCATIONAL. I think that brings me back to the original thread which is that flying is not about the money. If it was about money - how come a bloke i have just paid £2900 for 1 week taking photos in my 172 has gone to a turboprop as a first officer with a bond and less than £280 a week to live on after tax with an expensive re-location to boot? Answer of course is because he wants to!
It's never the money.