Originally Posted by
Triumph
Between all the pilots still on some sort of furlough status that have to return sometime in 2018 and the displacements, the training dept seems pretty buried. I'd guess the company doesn't see the logic in bringing a bunch of new-hires on books and then having them sit around waiting for training.
I've never understood this line of reasoning for the following reasons: training capability is fleet specific, so what does the huge load the 777/787 fleet groups have to swallow have to do with newhire training? It may indeed be that the widebody instructor ranks are being stretched to capacity, but what are the 73/Bus instructors and simulators doing other than their standard CQ business? In the last displacement I recall very few widebody FOs moving to the left seat of a narrowbody, it seemed like most just took up the same seat in the 777/787.
If anything I'd imagine the narrowbody LCA and SIM instructors are a bit bored waiting for BI classes to start running again.