This might not be true......
but I heard it from someone who used to work for oxford in the sales department!
There is this thing about Oxford training for the big airlines. But Oxford has not won an airline training contract for years. When September 11th came along they had only 3 left - contracts awarded several years before. But BA had already chucked Oxford off the shortlist for the new contract that they were in the process of awarding (but at least they finished off the cadets who had already started) and Aer Lingus had told Oxford that they were not going to send them anymore cadets.
I asked who has awarded airline contracts in the last few years? this was the list that Oxford did not get:
BA
Emirates
Air Malta
Britannia
flybe
easyJet
JMC
Air 2000
klmUK/Buzz
Kuwait Air
These were the airlines that rejected Oxford. They did, however, get that well know airline Khalifa, but unfortunately lost that contract to BAe.
Please, someone, explain to me logically the myth that it is worth paying £20K extra to attend a school that has been written off by these airlines?
My vote = go to BAe for integrated or go modular if you cannot get sponsorship.
I have nothing personally against OATS, but I do get the impression they are a spent force.