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The CTC ATP scheme has been re-opened for a several weeks now.
If selected, you pay £8,000 for an MCC course (even if you already have one) and then enter the holding pool. Depending on who you believe, the holding pool is around 80 deep and growing.
Even the FAQ on the website states that you are only placed with an airline once everyone else has gone. Those who went to assessment were told 2 years at best. I think that is optomistic.
In a nut shell, they have opened the scheme to take a load of 8ks from desperate wannabes to fill up empty sim slots. They have no realistic chance of a placement.
It's the way of the world at the minute I'm afraid.....