Aquaticus

Most of these guys are getting out or have been out for six months being with their families nonstop and now dad or mom is gone again for 6 weeks straight. United's training philosophy where you have two days off and they fully expect you to go home with positive space passes is extremely rare. There are airlines that don't care about your family life and will punish you up to termination if your space available flights don't work out getting back to training. Training can be stressful and failure rates at some of these 121 airlines is eye opening. The regionals are one thing but the smaller major airlines where they are hiring experienced people still have a respectable amount of people ding something. I think Spirit had a 95% pass rate on their oral exam (no AQP) and about a 92% pass rate on the type ride. Unless someone really dorks it up and pink slips both you could have up to 10% of a class with a fresh failure leaving training.

We have it good here now but that is because people fought for us to have a very relaxed training environment. Laundry expensed, positive space home, one hotel room throughout training, great instructors, ... United's training was the least stressful I have experienced.