@207592
News of a career path denied by a change in circumstances is shattering, but it was the inevitable consequence of the “Autumn Review”
That was when the penny dropped but the reasons starter much earlier..
We need a number of pilots of various types in the future, and we have a different number pilots at present.
There is an attrition rate in the current supply due to retirement, health, loss etc.
So if the training output of pilots, added to the number we already have is larger than the number we need after attrition is applied then we have an oversupply. Any half decent Project Manager understands resource scheduling and that would appear to be what has gone wrong.
Shouldn't the question not so much be about how many people will not get to meet their ambitions, but which group of people have allowed an oversupply to occur ? Sure, there will be occasional oversupplies when platforms are taken out of service, but surely its more about how have we managed to get a lot of people's aspirations set so high, when there would never have been a job for them at the end of training ?