Originally Posted by
UAV689
Ryan hire 1000 new co-jos a year. They are instructed to claim all their training costs (tr, uniform,hotels) back via these fake shadow companies, and most co-jos dont pay tax for 3 years. So by claiming off their tax bill ryan have pushed a huge chunk of their costs on to local governments! Legacy airlines cannot compete with this unfair playing field
Depending on the legislation training costs can be offset against taxes of employed pilots as well and company paid training, uniforms and hotel are deductibles for the company as well, so the hurt for the taxman is rather negligible here.
Not to condone Ryanair practices in any way!