Originally Posted by
atpcliff
Sounds like the lower time pilots are going to Southern, and the higher time ones to Atlas. ALL new hire classes are short of people, except maybe the 777 for Southern. They just cut the hoped-for Atlas 747/767 class sizes in half, because only about half of the new hire class seats were being filled.
...and now the training failure rate is going through the roof at both Southern and Atlas. The knee jerk reaction to the accident I guess. These standards should have been in place for the three years leading up to the accident when we all were pleading with management to do something to prevent it.