There have been large delays and these will of course be passed on to you in turn via AQC and placement - first come, first serve. There have long before these times been perhaps 6 month waits for courses. At least your basic training hasn't been hacked to shreds like some other courses I know of. If you are asking for an exacting finish date, I would say it is irrelevant and if anything better for you if you finish later from a training side because you have a long wait ahead of you. If you are asking from a repayment point of view, if it is unsecured HSBC can only be accomodating. If it is secured then you will have to ask and plead that they are nice to you. Ultimately the money is lent and they want it back. It will be accruing more interest which is only a problem for one person - YOU. CTC and HSBC are MAKING interest. CTC ever more so on the time that they do not transfer the 'bond' to an airline, not that that will happen anyway with the new FlexiCrew Ts and Cs.