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World Travel
Yes there has been changes. Number of sim instructors being sent back to the line, massive amount of scheduled sim time in PHX being cancelled and new hires being let go. Mesa is back up to their same old tricks again. Be careful everyone. There has been a number of failures, "suspicious" failures on both E side and C side. Guys failing out of everything from FPT to the checkride then getting training review board and getting terminated, no choice to resign. A certain individual in management told a guy who did not fail a single written, or unsat a sim but his sim partner did was terminated for not working as a team. A Chief pilot told him that this was coming from a pay grade much higher than his, that he was truly sorry but he had no choice.
Even guys coming in for upgrades are being failed as well as aqp, recurrent and proficiency checks. These are the facts, and hope it helps someone.
When we need pilots? No way I believe that. I believe it about the upgrades that are failing, especially the crj to ejet guys. Learning to be a captain and learning a new plane, many of whom haven't had a training event in a long time. Good, we don't need bad captains out there in the left seat. If people don't prepare and can't fly within standards, they probably shouldn't pass at any airline.
I don't know about some secretive behind the scenes firing team out to get people, though. I saw some very questionable people make it through, some of whom eventually got let go after many extra sims or many IOE extensions.