Ok then www, you want to talk about
FACTS do you? Well maybe you had better get a few of them sorted out before you post.
Fact Times have changed since you were on this side of the cockpit door.
Fact Ryan
do charge for a type rating in a deal with GECAT. Cost GBP15000 for a 737-200 type rating.
Fact There is
NO guarantee of a position with Ryan at the end of the Type Rating course
Fact A new F/O with less than 1500 hours who has been through the scheme will be paid GBP11k plus flight pay plus expenses. There is no way that a new f/o will earn GBP50k in the first year.
Fact Ryan operate 22 737-200's out of a fleet of 44, and will not
begin to phase it out for another 2 years. (the number of -200's may now be 21, but even so the -800 hardly makes up a "great majority of ryan's fleet".)
These are facts that I have from a very reliable source (a friend that works for the company), but for the sake of being certain I contacted Ryanair's HQ just to be absolutely sure.
I have not in any of my posts in this thread "been pointlessly emotive about Michael O Leary".
I once respected and appreciated your views, but following your various intemperate lambastings of people on this forum, that is long gone. It also seems to me that you don't really appreciate what it is like for wannabe's now.
As far as I am aware I have never flounced anywhere in my life, although I am willing to be corrected on that one. I also do not "go off in a huff", unless there is a
very good reason for it.
I'm just too busy flying 900hrs a year to be spending sunny bank holiday Mondays in front of a PC trying to justify myself to your good self.
You just did...
