Concerning P2F
Morning all,
Pay to fly. I think it's one of the few things that can fairly safely be relied upon on this forum to draw universal condemnation, albeit some feel rightly or wrongly that it's their only option.
As a guy who qualified 2 years ago but hasn't had a sniff I find it intensely annoying that any hope i had (past tense) was reliant on my ability to spend the rest of my lives savings on a TR and then be raped on some kind of earn as you fly scheme. For me, this would have meant endangering the well-being of my wife and baby daughter... Not something I was prepared to do.
So unsurprisingly, I have spent a fair bit of time analysing p2f and one thing has recently occurred. Why are the pilots representation on management teams across airlines throughout the western world not demanding that if TRs are to be paid by the candidate to alleviate company exposure, then ALL company related training should be paid for by the candidate. Force "pay to account" on the bean counters, or "pay to MBA" on the managers (Do you KNOW how much an MBA or an ACCA qual costs!)
If the company refuse to ratify this, surely this then becomes discrimination with the appropriate recourses available.... Just a thought, but I'd love to see the financial directors face when he realises there's a storm of P2beancount in his team coming...