Fuel up.
$ to £ up.
Parts up
Maintenance up
Hangerage up
electric up
rates up
Insurance up
General overheads up
Regulation up.
SFH UP
"Self fly hirers are secondary income,.......like yesterday's jam."
Fluffy
Dangerous analergy, a large percentage of trainees will want to hire after gaining licence, I would not have trained with a Co that had that ethos, even though I was lucky to own a share in a machine.
"self fly hirers, may come back with the aircraft bent and lie about it"
That I can believe,
With all of above I do not think any flight school is living high on the hog, most have dropping No of trainees with escalating overheads.
Talk to the insurers regarding No. of policy cancellations or ground cover only.