Originally Posted by
GHawk
Build up the bench while training them with taxpayer money then furlough when need be? If the sims are idle and the instructors aren’t needed for flying the line, this doesn’t add a whole lot of expense beyond what, training hotels? I’m just trying to make sense of it.
Something has to be coming. No way that the airline would take on all of the costs to upgrade FOs again, train all pilots including new hires, and have all of the extra expenses. The government is only paying for the salary of pilots, so that is a huge cost for the airline to do all of this.