Originally Posted by
FlyingKat
Originally Posted by
Jonny Drama
Wouldn't training costs be very similar to retrain TSA on E175, if they are replacing all the E145s, versus moving them over to CPZ and training them there? Plus then you don't have the hassle and expense with adding the E175 to the TSA certificate. And like you said, they get all of those guys at half longevity. NOT saying I condone this!! But as we all know TSH is pretty ruthless.
If you merge certificates you are talking about a transition course (3 or 4 weeks) vs full blown initial training (3 months). Plus the other issue with this is everyone is having a hard time filling newhire classes.
All of the pilots at my old airline had to do an initial training every time they switched to an airframe they hadn't flown before. The only thing they got out of was 1 week of indoc. Pretty sure you can not 'transition' to an airframe with a different type rating that you have not flown before.