Alaska just brought back the in-person day, several good reasons for that. There are things which CBT's can't cover, especially for employees like us who may talk to their immediate boss once every ten years, if you pass him in the hallway.

That actually has been done, by regionals. Yes there were problems. Involving any non-company pilot in training will virtually ensure problems.


Interesting recent article in one of the business rags (WSJ?)... The self-checkout fad is actually getting rolled back by a lot of stores.

1. Shrinkage increases by 4-5%, due either to errors or theft.
2. Customer experience is often degraded. If I'm just getting a bag of chips, I'll do self checkout. But a whole cart? Not a chance, especially since I usually get beer or wine. It's very frustrating for the customer when the things malfunction and you have to get help, especially dealing with produce.
3. Machines are expensive to begin with, and inevitably have higher mx costs than originally envisioned (real world =/= design lab).

Self-service boarding pass kiosks are actually mostly fine, since it's a single transaction it doesn't waste a lot of your time when it malfunctions. They do malfunction, we use them, and for some reason they're too stupid to know when they're out of paper, so you can finish the process, the printer makes a whirring noise, but nothing comes out.

I'm going to speculate that Ch.11 is not the time to rush out a bunch of innovative, expensive automation. Too much other stuff going on for management, and the judge (and likely creditors) would have to approve significant outlays.