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Proximity
Money. Decades ago SWAPA allowed non-seniority list instructors. There was never an issue finding instructors to work for less money than line pilots until this year.
SWAPA pilots are filling in on certain events. However, pilots are scoped from operating a full motion simulator unless they are a check airman...and a check airmen is big money and we don't have enough of those either.
We have over 600 cka now…supposedly more than we ever have before in history.