Aerospace101,
I'm pretty sure I can say that not one person on this forum has a problem with the SPP cadets. We all wanted to be pilots. We all worked hard. We all did it different ways. That was our choice.
However, once you get a job with an airline, you will very quickly learn that the best way NOT to go very far in this industry is to be Mr Cocky Im So Great 200 Hours. There are more captains out there than you've had hot dinners who will knock you off your high horse before you've even had time to don your new Top Gun Ray-Bans.
The issue people have is with comments such as "It's a shame to put low houred pilots in such a position, no-one wants to leave the hold pool to go to another airline, but many have huge debts mounting up!" by RYR738_driver.
Agreed no-one wants to leave the holding pool to go elsewhere, but in your position, can you really chose to be picky with such debts mounting up? Im sure there are a number of people in this pool who could have got into BA earlier in their careers but went of elsewhere to start just because there was a job there.
And then your comments. "Jealous because a 21yr old gets 40k a yr and RHS on a shorthaul jet?" and "There is a reason behind the logic of creaming off the best students from fto courses into ba......To those ssp's affected. get a desk job somewhere and wait it out. im sure they ll have courses by next summer/autumn. remember ba have already spent 5k on you, and will probs get u in before the DEPs in the pool."
Flashing your cash and 'cream of the crop' status at captains who started flying before you were born will, I promise you, not go down well in the RHS of your aeroplane. As for thinking the SSP guys will probably get in before the DEPs in the pool, put yourself in BAs shoes.... Pay an extra £20,000 for an A320 type rating for a 21 year old 200hrs lad or get in a A320 type rated 23 year old with 1000 hours on type. You chose.
When you can walk the walk, then you can talk the talk.
Now, pull your trousers up and run along to class and let's get this thread back on track
P.S Oxford, right?
Last edited by superjet777-300; 23rd Oct 2008 at 00:40.
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