How To Become An Airline Pilot

How do you become an airline pilot?

I became an airline pilot easily, because in the mid-60's there were numerous advertisements. British Airways, and BAOC, at that stage realized they couldn't get enough trained pilots out of the Air Force, so they set up their own college at Hamble. That's since closed, so these days most people get their own qualifications. They get a job on a light aircraft, and then they gradually progress as their hours build up. As their experience builds up, they progress onto jets and through the system, up into the biggest aircraft. Easy Jets and people like that help some people, but I don't know exactly how they do that. If they do give them financial help towards getting their qualifications, then there'll be a bond period where they've got to spend five years or ten years with the airline to repay the debt.