Pay to Fly are not to blame
@ Sidthesexist,
PTF guys are not to blame for the state of the industry. As is nearly always the case, when things go t!ts up, we always look for someone else to blame.
The reality is, those pilots who were established within the industry, should have withdrawn their services the moment these schemes started because it was always going to go one way. It is only people within this industry who can influence it. And no one did a thing.
The fATPL guys who have just finished training part with more cash to get into the RHS of a 737/319 etc. The bean counters love it. The regulators can't find a problem with it as long as standards are maintained. The guy paying for a rating gets a job. Or something resembling a job, compared to what this industry used to be like. He/she feels good cos they've achieved their dream. Mammy & Daddy love the fact their little one has become a "real" pilot. And the CEO's of the various companies out their, whose spineless pilots allowed this to happen in the first place, have a smug grin on their face when the latest figures are published. Which indicates, one half of the flight deck team is free!!
However, the old and the experienced, whine, moan and do the square root of f%ck all in trying to change things. And all the while T's & C's go down the pan.
Wake up guys, the people who have ruined the T's & C's are not the newby's. It's the established so called experienced professionals who buried their collective heads in the sand and allowed the Stelios/O'Leary's of the world to come along and rape us.
But it's always some other guy who is to blame right???
Utter b@llocks