So HomeJames we should do whats best for the existing drivers instead of whats best for ourselves?
No one is selling out. Your saying that people should decline an opportunity simply because it doesn't fit with your version of what aviation is.
Dont blame a guy for taking an opportunity that you dont like. Blame instead the people who offered the opportunity in the first place.
Industries change over time. Aviation has been fairly static in this regarding for quite some time. Now the change is coming and all those existing drivers are simply averse to a change that they dont like. Sorry but maybe those drivers simply need to harden up and make the best of it.
Cadets are the new way forward for airline training. You dont have to like it but if you dont accept it you'll simply be a dinosaur waiting for extinction.
If however you can think of an alternative way for airlines to achieve the required result of reducing costs while maintaining saftey and service, feel free to tell them. Or express it here.
You all like to knock cadet schemes and yet no one has as yet given an alternative other than to maintain the status quo which was established 40 years ago. Clearly the status quo isn't working for the airlines like it used to.