When I went through pre contract, the footprint start to finish was around 40 days. I think we started 6 days on, 1 off, 6 on, 1 off and then 5 on. That was a rough stretch, barely enough time to take a dump let alone recover. Those first few weeks were brutal. Once the oral was passed, it was back to a typical normal training pace. I had a little less than a month before class started to prepare myself. I think the problem the struggling new hires faced was either not fully preparing themselves for the start of class or accepting a class date that gave them little time to prepare. I remember people getting hired and going to class four days later.

I feel like the training department has done a great job addressing the time constraint issues and making the program a lot less hectic. The stories of the old ways seem to be getting less and less common. I would say from what I hear on the line flying with new hires, there has never been a better opportunity to successfully pass our training program than there is today.