The rush by those with little or no experience has been helped along by greedy operators, it really is here to stay. I read panameurope are now running a scheme and also heard other ME carriers are looking into it and have slowed down on the intake in prep to introduce such scheme.
Would you believe it Aeroflot are trying it on now. They only recruit Russian nations anyway, but these are ones who have little money anyway, but are now running PTF scheme.
These companies do it because they can because people are paying. So no end in sight unless you stop paying.
Now I head again another rumour that R J Academy in DXB not paying money to instructors. Anyone paying out over 30k for a rating and line training needs to be so careful when you hand over that amount.
Good luck to you all.
Mr M