Originally Posted by
TTail
From talking to a friend who is an checkpilot over there, he says they custom build the trips to check a bunch of boxes like Alaska flying, and ETOPS, and that the trips tend to be pretty good and efficient or else the instructors complain and get them fixed.
Much better to honor seniority and let the company buy the trips they want to use for IOE. We used to withhold trips for IOE and I don’t think anyone wants to return to that methodology.