Originally Posted by
PowerShift
9 MAX sims, working 21 hrs each a day, is 189 sim hours a day. Say 3 hrs per crew, is 63 crews or 126 pilots per day.
126/9500 = 75 days to train everyone. That is the most optimistic figure, reality is more like 4-5 months. This assumes they have the instructor staff to handle this.
Then, there will be time to bring the parked planes back on the line.
If the FAA blessed the MAX tomorrow, it could be a year before the dust settled, so to speak.
Those things would happen concurrently. If they announced the required training tomorrow it would be easily in full service by summer. Of course it doesn’t look like anything will be announced in the immediate future.