Originally Posted by
Tinpusher007
Yes, first day of groundschool is on the company's dollar. On the first day of class, your picture is taken for your company ID and you receive it as soon as they are printed later that day. You can then go on the company website and enter your passport information for CASS and you can start jumpseating and nonreving almost immediately.
It took over a month for many that were in my new hire class to get their CASS processed. A call to crew scheduling took care of for some on the spot, other people that made they same call were told by crew scheduling that they had no idea how to complete the CASS verification.
I haven't checked lately, but don't get your hopes that the turnaround is almost immediate. For my class it was far from. We were still able to non-rev with no problems, jumpseating was just a problem. Good luck with training!