My personal opinion is that professional flight training will be harder to achieve in a few years, several reasons for this
1. The rising fuel costs
2. The advent of the MPL
3. Ever increasing pressure on the environment
4. Already small margins being seen at flight schools
5. A lack of experienced instructors due to airline demand.
I certainly think the modular outfits will be affected the most mainly due to the first 3, also self fly hire will become expensive for Mr Layman to go flying to help pay the bills hence a fall in the number of people going through the system.
Thoughts?