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To answer your poitnt, Alex, not a chance! 
But then, based on my experience running a small airline, the whole industry is run from month to month, as people who have tried to get refunds from lost seats recently have found out.
But then, based on my experience running a small airline, the whole industry is run from month to month, as people who have tried to get refunds from lost seats recently have found out.
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PV1 -- Agreed..... the very point I made on the adjacent thread to this where just months ago it was all up beat and frankly BS....sadly, there seems to be no repercussions for CEO's who clearly are running a company which is insolvent.
The only thing we can keep repeating is go modular and don't pay large sums up front. Along with Alex Whittingham I am suggesting ATO's get together and petition the CAA (see thread) this might at least level the playing field and allow a larger number of smaller ATO's to survive giving wider choice and overall lower costs with more security to the customer. The way things are going, after the next predicable casualties, students will be left with less choice and even higher prices to pay and more upfront.
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The only thing we can keep repeating is go modular and don't pay large sums up front. Along with Alex Whittingham I am suggesting ATO's get together and petition the CAA (see thread) this might at least level the playing field and allow a larger number of smaller ATO's to survive giving wider choice and overall lower costs with more security to the customer. The way things are going, after the next predicable casualties, students will be left with less choice and even higher prices to pay and more upfront.
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the trend I see from afar is that fewer and fewer training is taking place in the UK. Larger schools are conducting most of the training abroad… don’t have insights on the numerous smaller ones.
From what I learnt about costs of conducting training in the Uk, I do not see any large operation taking place but will the students go mostly abroad? Will there be room for a medium size school looking after the ones that don’t want to move abroad for the training?
We will soon see what happens
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I am also curious to see what happens in Brighton.
the trend I see from afar is that fewer and fewer training is taking place in the UK. Larger schools are conducting most of the training abroad… don’t have insights on the numerous smaller ones.
From what I learnt about costs of conducting training in the Uk, I do not see any large operation taking place but will the students go mostly abroad? Will there be room for a medium size school looking after the ones that don’t want to move abroad for the training?
We will soon see what happens
the trend I see from afar is that fewer and fewer training is taking place in the UK. Larger schools are conducting most of the training abroad… don’t have insights on the numerous smaller ones.
From what I learnt about costs of conducting training in the Uk, I do not see any large operation taking place but will the students go mostly abroad? Will there be room for a medium size school looking after the ones that don’t want to move abroad for the training?
We will soon see what happens
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skyborne are receiving their EASA ATO approval in about 6 months time and will use shoreham as a base to conduct EASA MEIR skills tests due to its proximity to French airspace. I have been told they will not be intaking any sort of ‘full courses’ from this location; simply just conducting MEIR for there to be current EASA students. Suppose it’s more financially efficient to do that than to open a whole new Base in EU?
