Ah, gotcha, makes sense. I was referring to this quote though: "We’ve actually had our first cases of newbs being fired during initial training for Captain bids."

I think what you're saying is 'newbs' in this case means "guys who have joined since 2021" as opposed to "guys who got assigned CA in NH training." So that would make perfect sense.

I dunno...I've only ever worked at one 121 airline but in my experience you had to be a complete numnuts who refused to study, in order to get fired from training. So who knows. Personally I found CA training to really not be about the airplane or flying, but about decisionmaking and CRM, and those skills are arguably harder to teach than how to fly an ILS.

Still, I'm utterly gobsmacked that 25% of UAL hires over the past 3 years are no longer with the company.