Originally Posted by
Justdoinmyjob
We've always had E periods. The deal with them is that only new hires are allowed to be scheduled in them. Contractually, no line pilot can fly an E period. They finally just reached a point where they had to dust off the E for the new guys, and keep the other periods open for all the movement coming from the AEs.
I thought West Coast based pilots could be scheduled for an E period in ATL. It barely falls outside the "no training between 0100 - 0500 base time" rule. I had heard they started scheduling some of those guys for E period CQ. I haven't looked to confirm though.