Bit ironic reading people's comments about CTC's scheme not being a sponsorship.
It never was. Provided you passed the selection and training, you are buying into a job.
The debt is acceptable if you get a flying job at the end of it, and obviously it isn't if you don't. But it's the same scheme.
A lottery ticket costs the same whether you win or not.
I wouldn't be surprised if people are still going through the selection and paying 200 quid for half an hour of computer tests thinking that it's always the others that don't get a job, and it'll be alright in the end.
Good luck to all struggling. It's a bit disturbing knowing that potential airline professionals can't sleep at night because of debt. Even if one got a job, would still be in debt for years. I wouldn't want to be a passenger in your flight.
I am a trainee ATCO now and I wouldn't be able to do my job if there was a 100 grand debt all the times in the back of my mind while looking at a radar screen...