FIC like me. Trust me you'll have a new appreciation for flying, the joys of it, why you did. You also get the basic elements and simple rules; something 25,000 euros at Ryanair won't get you. Plus thoes hours put you in the driver's seat of where you want to go.
If the EC becomes a country (highly doubtful) and GA comes back (I wish) being a FIC is the only way to the airlines.