I hear you - but again the point they might have been making was you paid double for a the same blue cased licence as those that went modular and didn't have the same opportunities.
Did you ever see, or has there ever been a modular cadet that went straight to BA or Easy for that matter?
The figures I quoted for myself it what I paid in 2008 so to compare:
I paid £55k for a licence and type rating.
You paid 'just over' £65k for a licence and type rating..
What's a tiny bit frustrating for me now, is to pass the BA selection, and 9 years after completing my licences, there is still Integrated newbies who haven't even passed their training yet, that will join BA, be higher on the seniority list and sitting in both the RHS and eventually LHS in the company before people like myself will.