Commander, I'm not having a dig at OATS students at all, I'm sure they're all nice chaps and as you rightly point out anyone would be mad not to take the chance to go to one of these seminars.
In fact I have personally recommended to more than a few people through this forum that they go and do their training there, because as you can see the connections that place has with the airlines are unbelievable and a good recommendation from them has always virtually guaranteed you a hot seat of some sort with minimum hours.
The only thing I find astonishing is that airline recruiters would still be considering employing fresh graduates from ANY flying school in the current climate. There are plenty of unemployed people out there right now from the likes of Flightline, BM and Gill, who have got
thousands of hours of multi turbine and who would dearly love to have a quiet word in Brian Bannister's ear <img src="rolleyes.gif" border="0">
I know when the jobs do start getting handed out again I'm going to be going up against a couple of my pals who have thousands of hours experience on things like Bae146 and ATR ... people who I know for a fact been hammering the likes of Go, BM and Channex with CVs for months and getting knocked back!! I fully don't expect to get an airline job until the market has soaked up those guys and they start looking at the hourbuilders, instructors, and 509ers again. But to see airlines running employment seminars in OATS right now, just defies all my rationality circuits <img src="confused.gif" border="0">