Okay, enough. You are allowed to be critical of propaganda. The company can do whatever they like. It's a great PR move for both parties to show of their shiny new airplanes to suckers at certificate mills like ATP. It is, however, the only source of information some of these people are getting. There are no career counselors giving them other options. If you call ATP, they are going to tell you that it makes sense to be thrown into their half-baked program. They want your $60,000. They want you to come work for them for $8 an hour of flight time. They want you to think that the only way to fly the 175 is to give them your money and work for them.

The only way to combat this is through education and enlightenment. It is to allow other avenues for flight training; ones that will not put flight students in debt for the rest of their careers while working for below poverty wages while instructing and barely above as an airline pilot. Or, we could all just hop on the company bandwagon and praise both ATP and Mesa for all the great things they are doing for aviation. (Note: if Skywest, Compass, GoJet or Republic were doing this, I'd be saying the exact same thing. Quit thinking that I'm after Mesa).