Originally Posted by
eaglefly
Figure at least a couple of hundred furloughees will return during the second half of next year and that's 1000 new pilots they'll have to train in 2016. Most probably won't return, but 20% seems reasonable.
It would be great, but I'll believe AA runs over 80/month through the schoolhouse when I see it.
It certainly can be done. They went from one class of 70(?)/month when I was hired to double that in 2001. I don't remember the exact numbers, so ballparked. When I transitioned from FE to S80 FO, my sims were in Long Beach CA because of the overflow.