The Pay to fly guys at BMI have not strictly jumped to the head of the queue. They are not being offered a job at BMI, the company is training them and then making a little bit of cash out of it.At no point is BMI paying them
Once they've done their X number of hours line training BMI waves good bye and off they go to find a job some where else.
It is all rather distasteful since there are guys working as crew in the hold pool and there are another (potentially) 129 F/O's who will be looking for alternative employment come May.
I find it disgusting that a company I work for does this, (and as an F/O who will be redundant soon) tells me , hey it's ok we'll give you the odd extra day off when they're filling your seat, and the trainers say, hey not to worry it means I get to keep my training position while we have these guys.
Is it a profession any more ????