jetlag7

New hire training in Columbus is about 9-10 days long (company policies and procedures, FOM and regs, CPR and survival training, etc....) followed by aircraft-specific training which can last anywhere from 20-30 days, then IOE which can take as long as two full 7-day tours.

I'm not sure how fast they're getting guys through the training pipeline nowadays, but when I was hired in Jan '06, I didn't finish IOE until early May and wasn't flying the line as a "fully-fledged" line pilot until June. FWIW