at unsw we do have a contract with qlink and the top 5-6 students each year graduate and immediately get employed at qlink because they value the training done here
While that may have been true at times in the past (unsw, along with FTA, OAA, etc), that doesn't mean that that is currently correct.
AFAIK, the last FO induction at Eastern was in June last year. Sunstate have done a few more, with the last intake over six months ago.
IT WOULD BE MY GUESS that the Sunstate intakes were from our hold file, which is still pretty extensive and I know personally some people who've been on it for around two years.
immediately get employed at qlink because they value the training done here
IMHO, you could only have heard that from someone at UNSW.
I've been speaking with some training captains over the past few weeks and the feeling I got was that there was a dissatisfaction with the 250 hour pilots that were coming through.
DIVOSH!