but it is the reason why the airlines favour the cadets over the modular
students, they are a known quantity
Nope, it is because you guys are willing to fly for peanuts, pay all your training cost and accept a pay deal only a fraction of what was the industry standard only a little while ago.
The airline does not care that you are a cadet or modular, they just found a willing pariticipant to use you as a pawn to erode the T&C's for a generation.
I pity you, just don't come here 5 years from now when you are on 30K flying the left seat working your butt of complaining here how sh!t the industry has become.
Your argument does not hold water, if you guys were that good, why do you get paid 20K less a year compared to non cadets?
The only reason you guys are there is because you are cheaper and you are willing to prostitute yourself for a flying apprenticeship, I won't even call it a job. The only reason you have lasted as long is that some senior crewmembers/trainers are participating in this scam.
You are going to look back when you are looking to buy a house and start a family and you will realise that you can't as you yourself have been responsible for destroying a good career.
Well done, the sad bit is, there are hundreds like you waiting to undercut our terms, fly for free, pay for their own training just to get into that right seat.