I my self come from the modular route, and honestly I can say that I finished my training earlier than any other integrated student, had the same opportunities as any other integrated student, and simply I cannot find any faults on the modular program.
Same here, I haven't had a single days unemployment which wasn't planned by me. The day my license came through the flying school door was my first paid flight.
The large scale training industry and large airlines for that matter would like you all to believe that the modular way is dead. There simply is not enough students to go around. If you total up all the jobs that are actually out there currently in the UK there is enough for one big school. They are relying on the self financed to keep the training capacity in the system. If they do need to expand or get pilots in quick it takes years to increase capacity. If its not there they don't have any choice what they take in through the door.
Modular is a pain to them and they invent things like the MPL and lobby for legislation change to try and make modular uneconomic and die a death. Every time they try something it usually comes back and bites them in the backside just as with the cadetship thing. They only realise after they have it in full swing that there is no real point going for the premier priced course because all the jobs from said course are now tied up in cadetships. The students that might have gone for it because of the chance of getting an interview are staying away. And modular keeps ticking along just fine.
Every pilot that trains modular and then gets a job is taking 30k plus away from the integrated school system. And there are loads of them who are doing just that.
500 hours multicrew and nobody gives a toss how you trained be it BA or whoever.
I know what you are saying Richard the only problem is that he infects others with his marketing. Its a bit of a wizard of OZ type affair with if he says it often enough it will become true.
I wonder how many times the same thing has been said on here that modular is dead. I can remember it being said when I joined PPrune as a wannabie before 9/11. I ignored it and went modular, 11 years on I am a Training Captain with over 5000 hours under my belt. Didn't have any debt's afterwards, have paid off the mortgage and the guys which took the advice will only now be paying there last payments on there loans.