Paying for your own rating
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what happens in America eventually becomes the norm over here
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Haughtney,
Paying for a type rating is somewhat like paying for a car, you can buy it up front or you can buy it on hire purchase but in the majority of cases these days, one will be paying for a type rating, one way or the other.
You're right about airlines that should not be in business. Having worked for the ORIGINAL low fares airline back in the 1970's there was no EU open skies policy, my then operator, having been offering transatlantic low fares for a number of years applied for approx 600 European routes. Maggie T was trying to privatise BA at that time so it suited her to put my operator out of business, 599 of those routes were refused and the rest is history.
Now, we have operators jumping on the LCC bandwagon, some have never got off the ground, some have lasted a week or less than a season and others simply lose money. KLM as an instance, started Buzz, sold that contravertially and have now started Basiq Air under their Transavia banner.
Others, without going into detail, are starting up, paying piss poor salaries, charging or bonding pilots etc. etc. etc.
That said, it is these LCC's that have opened up the pilot market to what it is today. Go back 20 years and compare the number of aircraft and routes around then to today, there is no comparison.
Paying for a type rating is somewhat like paying for a car, you can buy it up front or you can buy it on hire purchase but in the majority of cases these days, one will be paying for a type rating, one way or the other.
You're right about airlines that should not be in business. Having worked for the ORIGINAL low fares airline back in the 1970's there was no EU open skies policy, my then operator, having been offering transatlantic low fares for a number of years applied for approx 600 European routes. Maggie T was trying to privatise BA at that time so it suited her to put my operator out of business, 599 of those routes were refused and the rest is history.
Now, we have operators jumping on the LCC bandwagon, some have never got off the ground, some have lasted a week or less than a season and others simply lose money. KLM as an instance, started Buzz, sold that contravertially and have now started Basiq Air under their Transavia banner.
Others, without going into detail, are starting up, paying piss poor salaries, charging or bonding pilots etc. etc. etc.
That said, it is these LCC's that have opened up the pilot market to what it is today. Go back 20 years and compare the number of aircraft and routes around then to today, there is no comparison.
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Hi Phileas,
Was the original LCC here in the UK Laker..?...or someone else that my less than encyclopedic research has missed.
And Southwest has been around for a bit over 30 years or so, they have always been a LCC..but in a traditional sense....I believe they introduced ticketless travel in the very early 90's...and went from there.
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Was the original LCC here in the UK Laker..?...or someone else that my less than encyclopedic research has missed.
And Southwest has been around for a bit over 30 years or so, they have always been a LCC..but in a traditional sense....I believe they introduced ticketless travel in the very early 90's...and went from there.
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