But is it not true, that in 14 months when he has completed his CPL, if there are any job opportunities about and there may well be if airlines have not recruited over this period, that the pilots they would recruit would be the ones that have just completed their training.
In a word, no.
Any job opportunities in 14 months time will be massively oversubscribed. The cold hard facts are that several European airlines will fold/merge/massively downsize over the next year. All the indicators point to pilot job losses on a scale that many of us, myself included, have not yet witnessed in our careers.
So 14 months from now the airlines who may have a few vacancies to fill will have their pick from a large pool of experienced, current, jet/TP rated pilots. The point everyone in the industry is trying to make to those wishing to join it is you have no chance of even competing for an airline job if such a large pool of experience exists.