I notice on another thread that an organisation offering 'airline preparation' is being slated because none of the staff have any airline experience. Perhaps the Head of Sales and Marketing would like to tell us how many of OAT's flight instructors have any airline experience (corporate flying in a twin piston doesn't count). Unless they've had a major recruiting drive in the last three months since I left, there's only a couple of FIs with any commercial aviation experience whatsoever, it's now all ex-service or ex-flying club - the perfect place to prepare one for the airlines I would have thought. Admittedly some of the STIs are ex-airline (BEA, BOAC, that sort of thing).
On an allied subject, I'd be a bit wary about the claims of a '737 simulator' - they ain't got one. What they have is a Frasca FNPT (Flight Navigation Procedure Trainer) configured as a glass cockpit 737, same as WMU with a similar (un)serviceability record by all accounts.
As to the 'partner' airlines looking no further for their ab-initio entrants - if you believe that then I have this car you might be interested in, nice little runner, one lady owner, only used it a weekends.