Originally Posted by
inky13
Don't confuse specific aircraft class start dates with new hire class start dates.
New hire classes (i.e. Indoc) will continue to start every two weeks.
E145 and E175 aircraft class start dates (i.e. first day of ground school/SPC) will be every week.
C700 will remain every two weeks.
Weekly starts for aircraft training increases resource efficiency.
This is a more likely scenario. But there are still some resource constraints. When I went through they were scheduling the sims to the max. So much so that it was actually counter productive. There was NO budge room. You miss a sim for ANY reason, sick or misconnect instructor, weather or maintenance shutdown and it could take several weeks to get that one period rescheduled.
One instructor leaving triggers several training events.
Maybe they will get better at it by decreasing the number of 145 NHs, but as long as they have the churn of forced upgrade displacements, it is going to be hard to increase throughput.