Ahh Ryanair threads must say they are always a good read, be it for a laugh 9 times out of 10.
In all fairness can we not be grateful that at least one operator is employing!
Ryanair is really how you take it, could they use a union sure as hell the answer is yes! Blame cadets for shutting up and sitting there fat dumb and happy.......NO of course not!!
Wake up people which contracts are the new cadets on......Not Ryanair therefore if any action is taken by these cadets it would not be with Ryanair but with the contracting agency! Since terms and conditions are listed in the contract therefore you would have to go through the middle man to get to Ryanair....Thinking about it a very cleaver way of doing it
Ryanair should be taking on all the excel guys who are type rated and require an OCC, save time and effort but again as you said Ryanair does cream some cash from the cadets. But the terms and conditions were long gone in Ryanair before many cadets even started flight school, so really harsh to blame the incoming generation. It is wrong but its the way the airline works simple as..... Everybody knows what they are in for nothing is hidden its all in black and white when you read your contract. If you enjoy flying, going to work, working with good no great people, going to some challenging places and flying good aircraft Ryanair is a great job, it really is just its run by an accountant and to be honest that says it all......
As for doing air taxi work and FI work, well the majority of AOC for air taxi companies you require 400hrs Total time (single pilot IFR commercial operations), not in the grasp of many new fATPL holders, therefore we start to build hours by Flight instructing right? Went to my old flying school last weekend, no instructor courses running because there is no demand for them...why.....because there is no FI jobs going. The AOC guys at my former flying school on average do 4hrs a month some up to a max of 20! In this day and age where would that get you??? No where especially with hundreds of experienced jet drivers on the market from the likes of Excel, Future and soon to be a certain 747 classic operator!!!! Ryanair is not the worse, how come people are not slagging off Air Asia where you pay the full hog including line training and line flying? Least at Ryanair you are paid during line training and once released to the line!
Just my 2 cents, its a sign of the times, but as soon as things pick up hopefully many unemployed guys and girls will be picked up straight away, the times are hard and will be for a while, we are just going to have to sit back and ride it out.