I'm sorry Chuck, allow me to clarify. You are saying that if the most experienced / talented instructors got paid airline salaries, there would not be a much greater cost picked up by the student? Where exactly would all the extra money come from to cover their wages then?
If a student got their license in say 50 hours instead of 75 to 100 hours you do not need to have more than grade five to do the math on the cost factor.
For what ever it is worth when I got my PPL it was completed in the minimum required at that point in time 30 hours, why does it take up to 100 hours now?
It sure can't be the airplanes used in today's training schools because we were taught on tail wheel airplanes.
Hell in today's world if you wanted to be taught on a tail wheel airplane you would be hard pressed to find a flight instructor who could get one airborne before they lost control of it.