My comment about banks being keen to avoid cadets going bankrupt was not meant to suggest that they weren't pressing hard for repayments. Rather they were keen for job offers to be put in place, on crap crap terms, which would mean that refusal to take said job on crap crap terms means you can't go bankrupt.
People, more cynical than I, would believe that the rock and the hard place got together and persuaded the airlines to provide an escape route (of jobs on ****e terms and pay) which would avoid Wannabe going to the Bankruptcy Court and sticking two fingers up and walking away with £80k worth of training and licenses which are worth nothing to the Baliffs...
Or I may be wrong.
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