If this continues and is accepted by our industry, the right seat in an airliner will be soon for sale with a price tag on 500 hours P2 time in a 737 to get a crack at the middle eastern carriers.
Too late! In the UK, at least, the process is now:
- pay for your training at an "integrated school", at twice the price of a "pay per lesson" school,
- pay extra for special "two crew airline" training,
- pay extra for type rating on jet, with a "guaranteed" job,
- "garanteed job" turns out to be unpaid line training, with
- a bit of casual "pay by the hour" over Summer (when the airline is busy), then
- you're dropped like a hot rock over winter, and
- never called again, as you have to make way for the next income opportunity .. er.. "cadet".
