They come out of an integrated course with £100,000 worth of debt, they need to do something so it then spirals out of control. Well don't do the training if there are no jobs. The flight schools are full even when we are sliding into recession and beyond. It's completely bonkers.
Deano, it is bonkers.
When pilots are getting laid off, airlines are going tango uniform, T&C's are ever decreasing as carriers look for a few points on cent per passenger seat mile, people are still lining up to sign on the dotted line, get their parents, or their own house in hock on the fallacy of available jobs out there. A pilot shortage...
Look at the title of this thread; BALPA citing a shortage !
That'll get more cadets through the doors of the FTO's, more people getting in debt on this fallacy.
Then when push comes to shove, with a newly minted ticket and 200 hours, the stark realisation they've been sold a pup, and that ticket is just going to be a ticking clock of liability, so any offer no matter how poor is the only way into a flight deck, or that debt has nothing to show for it.
Bonkers. Absolute stark staring bonkers. And those that feed the fallacy ?