All very well and good about doctors paying $200k for the training in the USA but last time I looked, Ryanair were flying out of European airports.
In Scotland at least, and some of the Scandy countries there are are no tuition fees and medical grads usually leave with very little debt.
Yes I know a small turboprop operation can not "hire" on the scale of FR however you seem to forget that if everyone had put their foot down and said NO to SSTR the airlines would have no option than to provide the training for their cadets if they wanted their airline to grow.
Unfortunately it was FR who were the most public about these schemes and what started as a trickle of SSTR cadets soon became a flood in the FR era.
Now what I cant't get round is now all you guys that have bought your way into the RHS you are complaining about the T&C's you have to work under, if in your mind this is a different era of flying with budgetary constraints and SSTR the norm, then consequently in that case six sector days, 35min turnarounds, unstable roster, inconsistant basing policy, unscrupulous management etc etc ad nauseum, should also be the norm in this cost conscious industry.
Realistically all the people bitching about working for FR, or should I say Brookfield Accountancy Firm, were a cog in the wheel that produced these so called T&C's. So my point is, you helped create this situation, you went in with your eyes open, you paid $250 to submit an application, so stop complaining about it, as you so rightly say the industry has changed and !!!! T&C's go hand in hand with SSTR.
