I work for an airline that has a cadet scheme and these kids are taken from school or uni and sent to oz for their fully paid training and during this time they are on a cadet salary their accomadation is looked after and when they return their carreer paths are layed out with progression through the airline. All this time the bill is picked up by the airline itself, no gov grants , no self funding but a financial commitment from the airline only and repaid by the cadets as time of service.
What Im leaning towards here is that the scheme virgin is offering is not a cadetship its just an excuss to lower condition and once again in Australian Aviation people will crawl over broken glass to recieve the pineapple treatment from the airlines, then in 5 years time they will be on this forum complaining about their conditions.
