Originally Posted by
Excargodog
In fairness, the disastrous shortage of E-175 sims and instructors last summer wasn't just at Compass, it was dang near universal. The surge in hiring by the majors and resulting attrition and need for the regional's to crank newbie's through at a hitherto unseen pace sort of caught everyone with their pants down.
That being said, I doubt that anyone really learned from the experience so, yeah, everybody will likely get behind the power curve again at least a few more times....
I'm not sure if this is true, Republic is currently hiring people and offering them classes next August!
Of course that could be because they are going to use their 100 ERJ order and ramp up in hiring to get ready to take over Compass' flying on the West Coast next year.....