Vexed, how on earth do you know about the way business is runned by Ryanair, you speak as if you were management knowing everything about their strategies and business plans, ok you are right, they do make the results official, but how can you know how to run a business like this, and how do you know that US is so different ? (I don't think they are much different business vice)
Ryanair has a strategy and they are dammed good grocers, thats why my self and many others are still employed in a developing expanding company with a very interesting future, and we will get a part of the cake when time is up, othervice they can't expand, just have some patience and let this down turn pass.
It is hard for the cadets not to know if they get employed or not after having paid for the type-rating, they are free not to, it is just an offer they can refuse, I did'nt even get the chance to buy a type-rating nor getting a job back in the eighties, I had a hughes dept and kept crawling up the latter for about 6 years untill I finally got a seat in a Shorts 360 !! still having my unpaid dept but at least I could start to pay it back.
Life is sometimes about taking risks, sometimes you win sometimes you loose, but there is always another way to pick.
How many airlines actually gives an oppertunity to be an airline pilot not only for the youngsters but also for pilots who are mature grown ups in their early thirties before they decided to take a new experience ?
Just because Ryanair seems to do well it still might not be so well as you think, I am still happy to work for an airline that copes the downturn as Ryanair does.