Couple of thoughts...
- what do you class as success following p2f?
- don't be mislead by supposed success stories of people securing employment
In the case of the first point consider where do the jobs lie following completion of these p2f courses? I would say that the lucky few end up in third tier airlines. They do not unfortunately end up at national airlines in sovereign democratic states in what we would consider to be the western world. I would go on to say that some of these schemes could actually prove detrimental to you securing gainful employment at a proper airline at a later stage in your career.
Secondly and by way of example from my own experiences. I went to a small flying school in the uk. In the year that I completed my training the "where are they now" pages of the school website would have the outsider believe that we must have been once of the most successful classes in the history of aviation. The reality was that employment was gained as follows:-
- cadets had ground jobs already and a promise of flying once successfully completing the course
- ended up in well known locos after paying for type ratings
- had contacts within flight ops/HR in an airline