Originally Posted by
SGRogue
I was a 2007 AirTran hire on the 737. Never experienced anything like that during training and can honestly say that their 737 training made transition to UAL 737 relatively easy. The 717 training program did have a rep though.
This was early 2003 when the 717’s were still arriving and the DC-9’s were exiting. The 717 instructors were excellent but a couple still had the old Eastern DC-9 training mentality. Just glad they weren’t targeting me...my sim partner, who was going from the DC-9 to 717 captain had to go fly the 717 as an FO for about 6 months after our training before they let him upgrade on it. Long story longer I know.....