Originally Posted by
Itsajob
Does anyone with experience working at the training center know how many new hires that we can actually train in a year? Movement generated by vacancies and recurrent training occupy a bunch of sim time. If available, how many at current capacity, and how many when the new building is finished? We are growing and times are pretty good now, but 4,000 by 2020 sounds overly optimistic unless you are counting from several years ago, or include new regional pilots flying for UAX.
Howdy; I am 737 instructor/evaluator at the Flight Training Center. So essentially we have done a ton of hiring and growth at TK the past 9 months gearing up for the MAX. We have hired some instructors (growth) on the 787 and A LOT (growth) on the 737. The G building is complete and we are getting 3 MAX sims in 2020. First one I believe is coming early Q1 and another in March. We are also getting 2 787 sims in the G building.
I think the capacity is close to fulfilling what they are forecasting. However corporate always seems to fall short on hiring and training numbers. So take all of that with a grain of salt IMHO.
As long as the demand is there I think we will gear up to do those training loads. Time will tell.