Originally Posted by
Scott Stoops
Again, UAL didn't build Continental's training program. Of the UAL guys that I know that have gone through the CAL program (Uhires) has nothing good to say about it other than that the PI's were solid (kudos). This isn't Fred's establishment anymore.
Scott
Thats been acknowledged. The program needs a reboot, and it should have happened years ago. Problem was everything got put on hold in 2010 when we had dueling POI's. Now we are stuck because you can't just tweak an AQP Program, you have to start a parallel program and get it up to speed while simultaneously supporting the existing one to keep from shutting the whole fleet down during a program switchover. I don't now how they are going to do it, but it does need to be a priority. The program footprint has not fundamentally changed in 15 years, they've just added more stuff like RNP, ETOPS, etc to make the syllabus bloated and completely unbalanced.
However, the company is not doing themselves any favors by the minimal support they are providing in the daily operation. A lot of that goes back to an existing turf war between flt standards and training.