Originally Posted by
rickurukus
the airlines prefer the flight academies because they know that the academies are prepping the students for airline environment and all the students willing to shell out the money for some training like that are going to be serious students looking to take the next step in aviation... not some old grandpa trying to get his private license at an FBO end of story
Do you have any proof this is true? And by proof, I mean statistics for both FBO's and academies and/or proof of the airlines (more than 1) saying that.