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Old 5th January 2009 | 09:17
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jez d
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Flight training is a buyers market right now
A797, while this may be correct, what you are forgetting is that all of the UK's integrated FTOs conduct either a part or all of their flight training outside of the UK. With the GBP at such a low against the Euro and Dollar and still falling, these schools have already become as much as 30% less profitable for the off-shore part of their operations.

There never was, nor will there ever be a huge profit to be made in flight training, so I suspect that while schools will do everything in their power to get your business, the fact will remain that they simply will not be able to afford to discount current training rates by any significant degree. This doesn't mean that you shouldn't bargain, but the reality is that you may not gain as much as you might think.

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