It is absolutely disgraceful!!!!!
I don't want to sound a bore about all of this etc etc.
This is an industry which costs 50 thousand pounds for someone to get into (unless they one of the few who get a CEP).
Airlines dare I say it, know that people will self sponsor, and therefore you can't really blame them for only a few doing cadet schemes. However, the chance of an aviation career should be open to anyone that wishes to follow it and who has the sufficient ability to do it. I wonder if people writing to MP's would help????
Even if the government took off VAT on flight trainning it would help. 17.5% of 35 thousand is a lot of money!!!!! Money IMO that would be better in the pocket of ATPL students etc, so that they can have at least some sort of standard of living whilst trainning.
Sagey