snackysmores

The VP of flight ops who we just fired flew an airbus once 10 years ago when he snaked his way up the ladder at virgin. He did their inaugural flight to SFO or something.

In the years he was at Qx he never flew the Q400, never completed training, yet made policy decisions that affect us significantly. We're the only airline in the US that still flies Q400s and it's arguably one of the most difficult and challenging planes to learn to fly...He's responsible for trying to get our AQP cycle cut from 3 days to 2 which was a huge pita for all us who had to be guinea pigs (Feds said no after trial was done). He's also responsible for having upgrade training slashed..q400 upgrades will now have to do 30 hours of CBT, 3 days of ground, then oral checkride and off to the sims. The 2 week ground school is gone. "That's how we did it on the Airbus!"

The FOs upgrading now will be able to handle it but the 175 FOs down the road will struggle big time.