Originally Posted by Sprinkles
If you just graduated CTC or Oxford with >£100,000 debt and the only job offer was with a LoCo but you had to fork out money for a type rating what would you do? Especially if there is no other opportunities. Do you seriously expect us to believe you'd rather work in Tesco as that's the morally correct choice?
You almost hit the nail on the head when you say low hour pilots have been a major part of the demise. Yes they may have been, but I again reiterate they are not responsible. They are simply profit centres for the likes of CTC and Oxford and now the airlines.
It is these schools and airlines whom are responsible. The cadets I'm afraid, have very little options or choice nowadays.
The decision to undertake flight training was a calculated risk. There are no guarantees and each pay-to-fly pilot made the choice to fund flight training based on this premise. To claim that there was then no 'choice' but to pay to work and that cadets are entirely blameless is puerile. Whilst pay-to-fly pilots may not be the
only party who shoulder the blame, they
do shoulder some of the blame.
How much blame should the pilots who didn't pay-to-fly shoulder? The ones who followed the advice of those already in the industry and didn't pay-to-fly. Those who got relegated to flying piston twins and light turboprops on crap salaries with no advancement to the jets despite accruing many thousand hours of commercial experience, because the only recruitment is of pay-to-fly pilots.