Originally Posted by zerotohero
Anyone looking to join just be mindfull that delivers are just about over, F/O's are ten a penny (or 30k in the hand for FR) and anyone training over the winter will find themselfs very short on hours once on line, 3 standbys a week is becoming the norm now for winter and summer will follow suit as the sausage factory turns out more and more cadets
If you want to live in some shoddy Italian base on 5/3 doing lots of standbys and spending all your money paying back loans and living expenses where you don't want to be while desperately trying to swap your standby on day 5 to get home for 2 days to be skirt down the pub saying how great it is to be an airline pilot
I think many would agree that this isn't much of a future in the long-term, but even the conditions you describe can be better than unemployment or working odd jobs with relatively low salary and flying some VFR in a SEP now and then, all while some of your other skills might be deteriorating. At least for a period.
https://pilot.cae.com/Programs/RyanAir.aspx
Successful candidates may be offered an opportunity to fly for a contract pilot agency that supplies a pool of pilots that operate on Ryanair aircraft.
Successful selection and training won't necessarily lead to a job, then?