Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You dramatically overestimate training costs. Most of the cost of training is fixed and already paid for at the major airlines. The principle cost is loss of productivity while a pilot is off the line training. That is a non issue now with a surplus of pilots.
Agreed, if training costs were such a drag on the company, they'd definitely try harder to have 2 maybe 3 categories, but instead they have multiples of that as it is really the loss of productivity that is the most inefficient part of training.