ChrisLKKB, I fear that the issue regarding fully booked courses at PAT and other FTOs is for a student population that had already started their training during the sunny times. Thus these poor sods have to finish if nothing else just for the sake of it after all they maybe closer to the end than the start. Besides who'd want to do those wrteched ATPL exams again
Come next January things will begin to tail off quite evidently.