Great post Mick.
With the rise of these organisations smaller operators with no wish to be tangled up in these schemes because we were busy producing industry-ready quality CPLs found ourselves having to compete with places basically marketing "free flying" and as taxpayers also having to subsidise this.
With the fall of these organisations, stories of student files in skips etc and students left with huge debts and no qualifications, or if they were lucky a CPL that was as much use as a chocolate teapot, there are no winners in the industry, though all that money must have gone somewhere?
Suppliers have to raise their prices for the remaining customers to cover their losses and that has to be passed on to the consumer who can't be blamed for drifting over to RA Aus. And so the downward spiral continues.
There was a flicker of hope that Birmingham would scrap the whole thing but as far as I can tell all that happened was the pot of taxpayers' gold was made slightly smaller.
Last edited by Clare Prop; 14th Sep 2017 at 02:45.