I dont understand why this thread is so long...... Pay 30-50K for a license or pay around 100K for the exact same license?????!
Urm... Lets try it a different way...
Pay £400 for a 42 inch samsung TV or pay £1000 for a 42 inch samsung TV?
Absolutely right, if the licence is all you want. The problem is that many people here are looking beyond the licence, and how to acquire some manner of remunerated employment with it.
Most of the airline opportunities (few as they are,) for low houred pilots with these licences, are through the cadet schemes. These schemes are through particular training programmes.
To use your analogy.
Pay £400 for a 42 inch Samsung TV that you can watch, or pay £1000 for a 42 inch Samsung TV that comes with the possibility of a technicians job attached to it.
It is a case of what is it you actually want to do with that licence.