I'm an early November hire and I just got off OE this past week. Some of my classmates finished much earlier and others are still on OE now as we speak. There was a major slowdown a few months ago that jammed up the training department and depending on your luck and when you needed to get on the sim schedule the delay hit you hard or barely affected your footprint. I had classmates breeze thru sims in a month.... meanwhile I sat at home for an entire month (twice) due to a equipment breakdown that put me in the back of the line for the next open sim slot. Word on the street is that log jam is now around the OE stage as the early wave of holdups are now in that stage of training (at least on the 200 side) and the sims/FTD delays of the past have now cleared up.