Originally Posted by LuckyNow

I'm a bit out of the loop with initial qualification, but the way it used to be was 2 weeks of indoc and go home and wait for your ground school. The 320 utilizes much more home study and you complete that before coming back for sims. The 737 used to be 2 weeks of ground school, then 2 weeks (10 total) sims, which includes the ride. They switched to a different training material provider (Aerosim) and I'm not sure if they're doing that as home study now too. Someone who's been through recently could probably comment.

I'd plan to be finished with training 2.5 months (give or take) after your first day of indoc. I have no idea if the single list and the training events that might be associated with being able to bid new bases will slow anything down. In the past few years it's been common to have 3 or 4 weeks off between indoc and ground school.

As stated previously, there are 767s in ORD, but as a new hire you'd be about 2000 numbers junior to the bottom reserve and it's a dying fleet, so I wouldn't get your heart set on that one.