Cracking point of view superpilot.
Balpa need to be tackling this issue. I was lucky, having not paid for a TR, but I know many who have and many who will. They want to fly, have the licence and the ability, yet the only way that so many of them can do it is by shelling out another wodge.
Many don't have the ability, but money talks.
As airlines realise more and more what a great cost-cutting exercise this is, then we will watch our Ts&Cs go down the swanney.
It is Balpa, and it's members, that should be screaming from the rooftops about this. It has implications on so many areas, safety (ability?), fatigue, Ts & Cs even perhaps CRM.
Selection should be done on merit, not money. Think about where Ts&Cs might be in 15 years because of it.