Originally Posted by Flogger

And to further stir the pot, a 9E sim instructor told me he observed training with a pair of new hires who would be starting upgrade training before making it to the LOE ride. Not sure about this, but he had no reason to make it up.

All this is happening because there are quite a few FOs at 9E who don't want to upgrade for various reasons-base, holding a line, equipment, days off, etc etc..

The company has no desire to do forced upgrades. Nobody knows hows long this will last, but once all the 900s have moved over and the XJT/ASA Atlanta pilot population is depleted, things should go back to "normal", whatever that looks like these days.