But if all those schools put their prices up by £20 per hour, eevne more people would go to the US for training.
Then there would be even fewer work opportunities for Flight Instructors as more UK schools would fold.
Then some other hours-building wannabe with fluff on his chin would want the prices to go up by another £20.
The spiral would then continue until there was one school with one FI making £100K per annum training one millionaire per annum!
Get real - it's the harsh fact of market forces and the nonsense of 'hours building' by so-called instructors which causes this situation. Until the airlines face up to investing in their future aircrew properly, there'll never be a healthy state in the industry. There is a need for pilots to be professionally trained for jet/advanced turboprop first officer airline posts rather than for an endless stream of desperate people trying to find 'hours building' postions at small flying clubs in return for passing on their meagre skills and non-existent expereince to unfortunate students - and then expecting to be paid well for the privilege.....