cp2009 not knowing titan404 I cant speak on behalf of him but perhaps the reason he is speaking the way he his is because he knows of what he speaks?
Perhaps as has been said before this is a deal that is to be considered but too many people in here are ignoring the salient negative points put to them by others? It is human nature to only hear what you want to hear but I bet you anything that those same people on here that are seeing the cadet scheme through rose tinted glasses will be the same people on pprune in a few years bitching how bad it is at CX and to stay away!
Have you asked yourself what you are going to do if the company wins the court case in relation to BPP? What will happen if you stagnate as a SO as the conpany employs DEFO over the top of you and now your time to upgrade blows out? No pay rises on the horizon. You dont have the option of at least having them pay for your medical, housing and schooling nope thats all up to you. Can't move to a base as they are all jammed up at the moment and more importantly cant move to any other airline in the world as no one recognises SO time.
So now you are stuck what do you do now? Grin and bear it?
Being a cynic ask yourself why CX has opted for this scheme in a time of a massive unemployment of pilots? Do you think its a lovely way to lock in cheap labour that will effectively be indentured to the company for the better part of a decade?
Then we have people saying that this is the only way in and that going any other way is at best a huge risk. Welcome to the world of aviation! As a career its massively risky, cadets could fail the course (30 percent failure rate as quoted before) or once on line you could fail your line or sim checks and god forbid you lose your medical over something trivial and then have to fight and fight for it back. This is before we even mention the hugely cyclical nature of the idustry which has already seen thousands and thousands of type rated guys being dumped onto the market in NA and europe!
Youre on the course and Im happy for you, its lovely to hit the toga button on the threshhold and see the world slide beneath you at FL380 but please dont let the initial euphoria of passing cloud your judgement of how and why this has been created! Remember at the end of the day its just a job.
Please lets have some realism here not fantasies theres to much of that already!
Last edited by Rhodes13; 5th Nov 2009 at 12:16.