"For £1000 a month I could fly one or two hours in the Jet Provost and drive to the airfield in a Porsche!"
...ha ha some of us may have decided to just that for the next year or so...
As for is this thread useful well if it acts as a forum to also highlight to wanabees which airlines are struggling then why not?? (But then again I started it so I may be biased...)