If Ryanair are closing their recruitment doors on the 1st of April, OAA is a dead route. CTC are your only bet; just be sure you can pay the £1,200 a month BBVA repayments that shortly follow you finishing training, as well as keeping current on both flying and medicals. (The IR annual renewal is just under 2 hours at around £400 hr not inc approach/landing fees. To keep current I believe it's 12 hours every two years.)
When you factor in rent, living costs, travel expenses, loan repayments you're gonna find it hard to even manage that never mind think about expensive hours in the air! Expect to be in the hold-pool for well over a year before being charged extra to start type rating... unless you're "lucky".
Good luck!
Last edited by Contact Approach; 22nd February 2013 at 10:32.