Originally Posted by
Jonny Drama
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.
Indoc at TSA is 2 weeks, some places its 3. But either way you're talking about an extra expense. Also if you shut TSA down, it will be gradual, and you are going to have expenses with that in terms of severance and bonuses to get people to stay till the lights go out. By the time you look at all that, it probably is not very cost effective.