Good point WS.
I'm guessing that it was £18k when it was just the TRO that needed to make a profit. Now you've got to feed the TROs/airline/pimps etc, who all want a nice fat profit.
This scheme gets worse by the day, and it can probably still get worse as the cadets keep signing up.
What I want to know is can anyone whose recently started one of these integrated courses even spell their own name? To sign up for one of these in the last 14 months, you've got to be retarded or so rich nothing really matters. Both qualitities that used to be kept well out of the flight deck.
rant over.