It's funny. My buddies at legacy American are now going to CLT for training and getting the former Airways instructors. They have the same complaints we have about our contract guys. Short patience, superiority, inconsistency, unreasonable goals, lack of actual teaching. There must have been a terrible training culture at US Air. Where most of our contract guys came from.
This company really has no excuse at this point to be using contract instructors. I'm sure there are plenty of seniority list pilots interested and qualified for the job. Many have training experience all the way up to APD at previous airlines. The country club mentality in the training department here needs to stop.