Originally Posted by
palgia841
If you're talking about London/Paris/Milan/Rome, the cost is probably equivalent or slightly higher than LA. Other cities can be a lot more reasonable.
Still, their pay is much higher than regional airlines, even if you factor the cost of living, but you have to pay $40k in advance for a Type rating.
I guess it's more over there since their airline industry didn't go down as it did in the u.s.....9/11 didn't take place over there, that's also a factor....
I have a friend, and he did his flight training at the klm flight academy. All they have over there are the actual simulators, their flight training is actually being done in arizona, I believe. Flight training in Amsterdam is not affordable really. Not to mention taxes and user fees.
But after he finished his flight training, got a type rating in one of the airplanes of klm's fleet, he got actually hired by KLM and is flying first right seat with them. Besides that, he had financed his study at klm academy and the airline klm PAID off his loan
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so, yah...I guess JAA is a bit better than FAA?