A year ago today I wrote this:
No Dave. What needs to be said is that I believe CTC have over 150 cadets either paddling in the pool or under training for whom the prospect of an airline job in 2009 is a remote one. I know of one who was recently let go by a UK airline who is applying to Boots the chemist this week for a job stacking shelves. He plans to use bankruptcy (baring a miracle) to release himself from the £90k of debt he now cannot hope to manage.
Being realistic about a negative situation is not being negative oneself. Its being realistic.
You have to hope that things are going to pick up within two years as you are already in the pool. However there isn't a shed of evidence to support that hope.
It may be that some airlines actually want to take low houred cadets willing to sign contracts on very low net pay. IF they can find a way to encourage highly paid SFO's to leave and replace them with cadets on a new recession-era cadet pay scale then there may be some reasonable job opportunities for those with 200hrs. We shall have to see.
Bottom line, only a tiny fraction of Wannabes ever read these pages and only a small minority ever pay any heed to my opinion. The schools are full still and I can't imagine a bleaker more off-putting picture than right now so until the oil actually runs out...
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http://www.pprune.org/interviews-job...ml#post4544338
Two of the other threads worth spending a wet afternoon skimming through are:
http://www.pprune.org/professional-p...n-upon-us.html
And the later pages of
http://www.pprune.org/interviews-job...-part-2-a.html
There are plenty more. The current situation was foretold. Here. Bluntly from mid 2007.
Presently I predict the only recruitment for at least 2 years, and more likely 3-4 if there are 100+ redundancies at the big UK charter airlines, will come in the form of Self Sponsored Type Ratings followed by seasonal or contract employment on inferior terms and conditions. Where Ryanair now is at with the £33k SSTR and Brookfield contract is, inevitably, other airline will all now follow.
Until the Wannabe cash/credit runs out this is the future.
Its pretty bleak.
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