Originally Posted by
FloridaLarry
They're smart enough to recognize the truth you speak. Downsized regionals who have given up planes to majors will have surplus training capacity.
Those Majors can out-source training when it exceeds their in-house capacity, including back to the regionals who'll have extra seats in their schoolhouse (perhaps easiest if you have WO regionals, perhaps not - internal politics vs controls by contractual arrangements).
The question isn't can any particular airline train at a given rate. For ground school, their capacity is unlimited, I sat through a new hired class of 70 once.
The question is how much SIM capacity exists globally for the aircraft in question, and who wants to use it. SIMs can't be built quickly, very small niche production.