Actually Lord Spandex £8000 is a very acurate figure for a job at Easy, and yes £30k is the going rate at Ryanair (but I'm off to Easy, so £8k for me, contract already signed!).
Also, how long would you have liked me to have waited for in your ideal scenario? Its been a while since airlines sponsored cadets training, can count on one hand the opportunities that have arisen post 2001 (almost 10 years ago!!!).
Would you rather I'd started a one man strike against P2F and watch everyone else around me achieve their personal goal by paying. Don't think that would achieve much!