Recently, due to a relative shortage, people have been holding lines in PHL right out of training. Attrition is not extreme, but it is enough that at most you should only have to wait a few months at most. For a while we had had pilots on reserve for a year or more. That sucked. Overstaffing meant that they were sometimes going 30-40 days without flying.

Regarding the changes in training, they are orienting it more to the pilots we are getting now. That means low-time, no-121-time pilots. Nothing wrong with that (we've all been there and I was hired in Switzerland with 260 total time) but it means a change in expectations and procedures.

For a while the washout rate was getting a bit high. The company doesn't like that for a number of reasons. So they are trying whatever they can to bring up the success rate. Shuffling training events, adding CPT and sims, jumpseating, etc. I think that the jumpseating will help.

They want everyone they hire to finish training, that I can guarantee anyone who cares.