Originally Posted by saab2000

I started my newhire class on February 7, 2017 and started IOE in MDW on April 5. I spent 55 nights at the hotel in DAL and had a couple breaks where I could have gone home. As it turned out, I went home to MSP once, when the others had their type rating oral exams. I had my type rating so it didn't apply to me.

There were one or two other opportunities for a night or two at home but not for long. Training is not intense or worrisome, but it is a bit compressed and they cover a lot of information, both company and training related. I very much enjoyed my training time and I think most of the others did too. But it was my fourth airline training program so there were very few surprises, except for how much the company seemed to want us and how much they wanted us all to succeed, something I had never experienced to the same degree in the past, though I never had a bad experience either. Southwest was the best of them all.

Plan on two months of pretty compressed training, especially if you don't have the type rating. But it's totally realistic and manageable even if you are new to the 737 and/or Part 121 flying.