Originally Posted by
Sunvox
Take this with a grain of salt the size of Montana, but I spoke with a newly minted 737 LCA two weeks ago so. He was out on his first LCA gig. He said TK hired several hundred new instructors and LCAs, and the backlog (at least in the 737 fleet) of training and OE was almost caught up. The obvious implication was that the company is no longer desperate for instructors or LCAs. No facts other than the conversation with that one LCA.
we have hired quite a lot of LCA’s and instructors, but we have also lost many as well. Every single LCA that I talk to says they don’t plan on continuing to be a an LCA if the stuff in TA1 stays in TA2. The company needs LCAs and instructors for a long time, not just currently and I hope they know what they need to do in order to keep them. Also the backlog has been caught up, at least partially on the 737 front, because they slowed down the amount of new hires going into that fleet. For a month or 2, with NH classes of 30, the 737 was only getting around 5