There is another side to this. A certain very large chain of flight schools in the UK charges buckets loads of cash and then (in some cases) treats its students as if they are on a production line. I've seen one of their instructors take students out to fly in obviously unsuitable conditions so that the "instructor" could get the hours. It's not always the case that the higher the price the better the product. You may just be paying for some absentee shareholder to make mega bucks.