Originally Posted by
atpcliff
OE in the US is a joke, especially for carriers that mostly fly internationally.
Overseas, some OE profile are about 35 legs. The US OE is much less than most of the foreign OE profiles.
I worked overseas and my OE was about the same there as it was here.
Anyway, we have people doing 5 or 6 trips now, sometimes more from what I'm hearing. Average 16 segments per 4-day trip and you have over 70 legs.
My training in the US was harder than it was for my non-US carrier. That's all I'll say. It was a large European carrier.
Both have merits and demerits in my opinion but this thread isn't about that. This tangent is also not really a parallel to a non-US carrier because everyone we hire now has an ATP and at least 1500 hour or is one of the rare cases where exceptions are made, having come from an approved flight school.
The fact that people who have ATPs and have worked for several years in the industry and then struggle in the sim and on OE is kind of disconcerting. The APT requirement was supposed to have raised the bar.
That doesn't seem to have been the case.
Anyway, back on topic, this rumor seems to have gone cold.