Just a word of caution. The price you will pay for your conversion course will be higher than available in the marketplace. This is due the "approved" FTO's being required to pay Ryanair a "fee" per candidate as a contribution towards something or other
I think your right on that one my friend. I had wondered why there was such a discrepency in the price I had seen advertised from other organizations and the price I was told charged by Ryanair. Seems to be about 10K Euro in the difference.
I like Ryanair. I like the way they have made air travel open to everyone. I like that they gave low timers a chance. I understood the need to savagely cut costs, and hence the need to charge pilots for Type ratings,line training, interview fees and stop them running away by bonding them, which involves handing over 25K Euro(not just signing a contract). On a even lower level their sucess made me feel some national pride. When they got bashed by people on PPRuNe I put it down to sour grapes.
If it emerges that they are skimming or middling off there OWN EMPLOYEES!, I find that to be really disgusting and feel very let down and even I can see absolutly no justification for it.Or am I just very naive?
Jmc man, you say it might be worth it if there is a job a the end of it. I've spent 60K Euro so far, to get a job with Ryanair I will have to come up with 45K Euro(Bond for line training and type rating), bringing my costs up to 105K Euro. That is an incredible amount of money. Can it really be worth it?