Originally Posted by
Stocious
Hearsay claptrap! If that were the case then airlines would stop taking cadets from CTC, and new airlines wouldn't be signing up for CTC to provide their ab-initio training.
The airlines get to choose the best candidates that the school produces. So far there are enough "meet the standard" graduates that the airlines are happy. If the school produces many graduates with most having rich parents who will pay for the training, but won't be good enough to meet the standard the airlines don't care as long as there are still enough to meet the demand, and so far that has not been a significant problem.
What happens to those left behind after spending huge amounts of money but no realistic chance of a job, is of absolute no concern to either the training provider or the airlines.
The bottom line is simple. The throughput of the big airline pilot factories has significantly increases while the major takers of the product have announced that they will reduce hiring of 250 hr wannabes as they need to balance their experience levels and anticipate a reduction in fleet growth.
Those are the facts and no amount of wistful thinking will change the central fact. Graduates from the pilot factories are competing for a declining number of positions under steadily deteriorating conditions.
One of the most important skills of a good pilot is managing risk. I would suggest that the first risk you should practice managing is the personal financial risk/reward relationship invoked with aspiring towards an airline pilot career......