.and having to pay €120k + for an integrated course......
Who told you to enroll?
Honestly I did the Atpl years ago but don't recall to have spent 1/4 of the price you wrote and nowadays you can spend something like 40/50K euro for the full training.
You don't need to go and spend 100k and above just to have in your CV names like, Oxford and so on.....
...licence are the same and for the same final purpose!
Delta Charlie,
I agree with you about the p2f programs cancer...but....I don't think that the safety is touched!
I repeat that p2f program assessment are the same as for any pilot, you need to PASS SOME ASSESSMENTS and SHOW your SKILLS in the SIMULATOR as well. So if you pass you' re valid pilot as anyone else passed without any p2f.
And I understand that this is the policy of the "major" company doing these type of programs, even if i agree with you that could be a safety downgrade in some Companies where there is no any assessment done previously ! and for that reason we should make some differences-