It was meant to be a light-hearted post, illustrating the hopelessness of the situation. It probably fell wide of the Mark MIKECR, because "
This Forum is NOT for Job-hunting Experienced Pilots! ".
And don't worry. I am well aware no one is ever going to let me play with their train set. The message "
off, you aren't rich enough" came through loud and clear a long time ago. My licenses are long expired.
As you can see I don't post that often anyway. I only posted this because I hadnt unsubscribed and BA sent me it as an e-mail alert. It only sums up everything I already know.
BA and others like them will never go back to hiring the brightest youngsters they can find. They certainly won't sponsor anyones fATPL training ever again, that is long gone. To my knowlegde they haven't funded anyones first TR since 2007, and now they want 500 hours so that anyone not getting into Ryan Air will be tempted into a p2f scam. They are exacerbating the problem.
Am I bitter? Well its hard to not care when you spent your life savings on a license many years ago and built 1000 hours experience only to have the goal posts moved. I mostly don't care. I get irked when I go on holiday and I hear Captain Bob Davis on the tannoy, introducing 19 y/o first officer Quentin Parker-Lloyd, who is undoubtedly a finer pilot than me. Here is Quentin. He came from Ryan Air.
http://www.pprune.org/interviews-job...ml#post6574359
http://www.pprune.org/interviews-job...ml#post6574364
If TRs and P2F experience is all that is important, its not why I wanted to be a pilot anyay.
And to BA. You get what you pay for.