Originally Posted by
Denti
That might have been true in the USA, it certainly wasn't in europe. Closest to the US might have been the UK, but even there BA had their flight school and nowadays their future pilot program, Lufthansa had their own flightschool since flying was allowed again after WWII in germany and only hired non-cadets if their demand was bigger than the supply of cadets.
The problem is 20+ years ago there was a proper selection process of cadets, where 1 in 5000 would be selected. Now the cadet is the one with the mum who can pay. It is an unacceptable system.