Originally Posted by sailingfun

SIL’s for those 60 days would have had little or no impact on current training. Even if we extended the SIL program it would have had a very minor impact. It’s not likely SIL’s would have been a player at all after the cares act passed. Delta’s training load stems from two things. A very generous and over subscribed early out program. The take rate caught the company by surprise. The second thing was the complete elimination of the 777 and MD88/90 categories along with a restructuring of the 7ER category. We can debate how smart the attempt to restructure a massive part of the airlines fleet overnight was but regardless the restructuring and early out are driving 95% of the training load. Just the ER program probably resulted in over 9000 training events using 5 events per pilot removed from the top. I don’t see many posters busting the company over not restricting the early out program to a smaller number of pilots.