I was hired in mid-November and just finished IOE. Call it four months start to finish.
But of course I had several delays:
- 4-5 days off each for Thanksgiving and Xmas (N/A for someone starting now)
- 7 days between systems/oral and sims (mostly due to availability in CVG where I wanted to go). Several in my class got HOU and had little to no delay.
- 3 weeks delay to start of observation and IOE related to the gubmint shutdown and shortage of LCAs (since largely remedied)
- Another week between my second and third (final) IOE trip because my first IOE instructor got the call from FedEx and they had to juggle the sched.
FYI, normal IOE is typically two trips totaling around 35 hours. Due to multiple cancellations I was not able to log anywhere near 35 hours or (more importantly) get an acceptable number of landings so I had to do a third trip.
I would expect recent hires to go nearly straight through with probably a 12 week footprint.