But WHY do you find it offensive? There is nothing to take offence AT!
Put it this way, there are a hell of a lot of excellent, excellent providers of modular training, but there's also a hell of a lot of "flash 'arry's flying school, PPL for a tenner - innit" out there. So whilst some modular grads will have come from the excellent schools that provide top notch training and resources, there are also others from "flash 'arrys" who will require a LOT of extra time to adapt. And you don't have to employ too many of these to start thinking "sod this, let's just go and employ those we know about..."
Think of it in terms of your current employer - whoever that may be. Say they employed a dozen graduates from City university this year, but they turned out to be next to useless, lost millions consistently and didn't fit in, where do you think they'd look to recruit next year? I bet you anything, they won't be too quick to go back to City, although it's a very good uni.....they'll be off to Oxford and Cambridge, thanks very much. And this is a good example actually - there are many equally good universitys around the country, but Oxford or Cambridge will always get the pick of jobs.
The airlines helped shape the integrated courses. Each cadet will fly broadly the same way - the way the airlines want new pilots to handle the aircraft - because it was them that designed it. Therefore an integrated cadet is something of a known value....a mod cadet can be anywhere from flash arrys to the BFCs of this world and with standards to match.
Like it or not, a lot of mod students do base their decisions on training on cost alone. And therefore the training ISN'T consistent...because it's given by 3/4/5 different providers potentially, all of whom do things differently. With BA, it's fairly well known that they did once upon a time take some mods on, didn't get on with them and one bad apple etc etc...
Also, be a wee bit careful assuming anything from someones monniker....I got caught by that one once and got nicely flamed for it. For example, I am neither a pink, mood dwelling rodent like creature from the 70s OR 32.....
