Originally Posted by
e6bpilot
They aren't hiring with R-ATP...yet. There has been a big shift at the training center and on the line with regard to adjusting to experience levels of new hires. Just a few years ago, they were hiring super experienced folks with a type rating in hand and giving them a really poorly executed, cheap, and truncated new hire training and then throwing them on the line to learn everything.
I heard directly from a standards check airman that they were told that we were going to hire with a R-ATP and standards put the brakes on it, at least temporarily. I would be very surprised if they do not lower the mins within the next 12 months, or at least when AQP is fully implemented. For right now, though, you have to have a full up ATP.
I'd say the cheap part is mostly gone away, but training is still poorly executed and truncated to this day. Everyone in my class is complaining about it, especially military guys with ATPs and no 121 experience. This is my third airline and it is the most disconjointed training I've ever received.
But the people are great!