Originally Posted by afro-anonymous
You have to pay to instruct, pay to get into turbo props jets etc, it's all pay pay pay to fly however you want to look @ it I think.... Oh & breaking news:a certain low cost operator is set to create around 1000 new jobs based in Europe, amongst these jobs there are said to be vacancies for pilots(who have to p2f). Good or bad news...?
No.
There's a distinct difference between paying for a rating and paying for line training - which is paying to
work. Paying for 'line training' means that you are conducting revenue earning flights for the airline, making them money, and paying to do so. You are taking the place of an FO who
would begetting paid by the airline to do the same job. An FO who
works for the airline. This element of directly taking somebody's job and rendering them obsolete (why pay someone to do something that others are willing to pay to do?) isn't present in paying for a type rating. Sure, it's a great shame that paying for a type rating is practically the norm now, but paying to work is really a different beast altogether.
And to answer the question... why would it be a good thing? The benefit of job creation for an economy is that it adds to the amount of people with disposable income that they can then spend in order to boost the economy. Why would a company taking vast sums off of individuals so they can create wealth for the company (responsible capitalism anyone?) by taking somebody elses paid job be a good thing? It's not a job if you're paying for it is it.