Originally Posted by
Junkyard Dog
We will be short staffed as long as they keep washing out new hires in training. I wonder how much this costs the company when less than half a new hire class can get through training.
Less than it will cost them if they certify someone who isn't up to the job.
Regional wide, the companies have all repeatedly lowered recruiting standards just to get butts in the seats at the schoolhouses. But the lowered recruiting standards (now approaching, 1500 hours of SOME KIND of flying and the ability to fog a mirror) means these applicants are less likely to make it through training. Couple that with unprecedented hiring by the majors, oftentimes from the very instructors and CKAs needed to make a training program effective, leads to washbacks that use up still more instructor and sim time. It's sort of a perfect cr@pstorm in the regional industry training facilities right now.