The Reality of OAA's Employment Statistics

[modern monkey]

Here are the latest stats from OAA's website:

GRADUATE JOBS 2008
[Last Updated: Wednesday 11th June 2008]



AIRLINETOTAL

AER LINGUS

2

AFRIQIYAH AIRWAYS

1

AIR GREENLAND

1

AIR SOUTHWEST

3

AMSTERDAM AIRLINES

1

BRITISH AIRWAYS

13

BRUSSELS AIRLINES

1

CITYJET

1

DHL

4

EASYJET

1

FLYBE

20

JETSTREAM EXECUTIVE

1

KLM

5

LONDON EXECUTIVE AVIATION

1

LUFTHANSA CITYLINE

1

RYANAIR

42

TIGER AIRWAYS

1

TRANSAVIA

2

TYROLEAN

1

VIRGIN NIGERIA

1

WIZZ AIR

1

TOTAL FOR 2008 104
lets have a look at these stats shall we.

1. 40% of their "graduates" have gone to Ryan Air! Not only have these people paid £63,000 for their training, when exactly the same training can be bought for under £40,000, they have also suffered the indignity of forking out around £25,000 to be screwed over by Michael O'Leary. Hardly something to be proud of is it OAA?

I can also tell you now that OAA would have had nothing to do with the students getting those jobs, so thats at least £23,000 thoroughly wasted by these unlucky 42 desperados.

2. How many of these jobs are with airlines that only accept nationals of their country or fluent speakers of a language which is not English? Id say around half, which would mean that Oxford is in fact failing to get jobs for British nationals, the people who make up the majority of OAAs customers.

3. Discounting the Ryan Air boys, that leaves 62 graduates who can claim to have been sucessfull in their job hunting up to half way through the year. That could be said to be around 120 / year. If I am right in my calculations, OAA churn out around 300 pilots a year? That means that there is around a 1 in 3 chance that you will be sucessful in finding a decent Airline job.

Doesn't make very good reading when you take away the OAA spin, does it?

So it looks like two conclusions can be drawn:

1. Pay OAA £63,000 for their course, and the most probable place you will end up is Ryan Air, forking out another £25,000 in the process and feeling like a complete chump.

or 2. You have around a 1 in 3 chance of finding a decent airline job if you choose not to go for Ryan Air. This probability will only get worse over the next year or so, as the airline industry slows down.

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