Communication from Planet Skytoddler, Stardate 2015
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Well Mike - there are actually NO flying jobs going for commercial pilots any more. This is due to the logical and commonsense decision by the airlines, to follow the lead set en masse by flying schools in 2005, and abandon any form of remuneration for commercial pilots whatsoever.
Due to the vast numbers of highly qualified, well meaning PPLs volunteering to be airline pilots for free, in many cases better pilots than Chuck Yeager himself despite only having recently gone solo, the realisation dawned on airline managements around 2010 that there was no longer any need to waste money on training or paying so called 'commercial' pilots any more.
Passenger riots at Heathrow were only narrowly avoided in 2012 when the newly appointed BA Chief Pilot, HRH Crash Barrier, was captured on a Channel 4 hidden TV camera bouncing up and down on the left hand seat of a 777 while picking fleas off his F/O's back and eating them. Order was only restored when airline management promised to cut the cost of package holidays by a further 10%, by disposing of their simulation and training department and allowing all pilot recurrency to be done at home on MS Flight Sim, in a pilot's spare time.
BALPA finally admitted defeat in 2013 and announced it was merging with the McDonald's Workers Association, negotiating a cadet entry scheme into restaurant toilet cleaning for members with more than 10,000 hours heavy jet command.
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