You know a there was a time when people did an apprenticeship of flying instruction, air work, night freight, small TP airline, Regional and then got into a household name jet airline. When I did that I didn't get to live where I wanted. I didn't get paid more than £1,000 a month and November 1998 was memorable for being £110 for the month. You built no valuable hours and you made tea and swept the hangar sometimes.
It was tough.
Flexicadet-ship don't look tougher. Everyone applied. Everyone filled out the loan paperwork. Everyone was over the age of 18. Everyone got the deal as advertised (post 2009).
For the past 4 years there has only been EZY RYR and Flybe offering airline jobs in the UK. Spit on that if you want but BA didn't want to know your name until recently. The market for low hour pilots has been dictated by low houred pilots ability and willingness to pay further and further steps down the training path in an effort to get ahead of their peers.
The wannabe zombie army marched eagerly to the current conditions of employment.
Put in some hard yards.
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