Anyone can sit the entry tests to theses schools though? That is open competition, and in no way anti-competitive.
Ah yes but I'm not talking about the schools though, there is no legislation to force any school, flight school or otherwise, to take someone if they cannot pay. I am more pointing the figure at the airlines who only take from one or two sources.
I don't want to clog up the thread with this though, it was just an aside thought that I mentioned in a previous post which john then picked up on so I thought I would see how far I could get with it. It is clearly not relevant to people currently trying to enter into the profession so I apologise for diverting the thread.