BALPA blah blah......
NSF, is that really you posting or has someone hijacked your pprune callsign?
A year ago you were typing fairly sensible stuff on here , now you seem to be blinded by what BALPA has actually achieved re: EZY TRSS, CTC Cadets and now P2F. The Log contains advertising for P2F and most TREs who train these folk with more money/credit than sense are members of BALPA! They have done absolutely nothing about CTC practices.
Stop bashing other unions and start refusing to fly with P2F. maybe get one of Superpilot's T shirts and wear it on the flight deck and through the departure lounge.
James 1013 has the right perspective re: FI jobs and why wanabees can't get in or don't want to go that route. The other reason is the loss of the 700h CPL route.
BA cadets were company sponsored all the way and proved that with good training, proper support and backing a 250h junior FO could make it to Command (but not in year 3 after a few hundred more hours i.e: once he had served 10-20years learning the ropes!). Many of those cadets started on BAE ATPs - not all went to 747s straight away and if they did they were sent back down to smaller jets to get commands.
P2F is a sick joke and those who support it directly or indirectly (company rosters you to fly with one) are shooting us all in the foot.