Originally Posted by Nosmo King

When fNW originally decided to pay hotel and per diem to instructors it was to prevent the instructor cadre from becoming an "old boys" network. It also opened up instructing to a much wider pool of candidates, some of whom were extremely good instructors that did not live in and were not based in MSP.

Do seriously expect all of our instructors on the 747, 330, 320 and DC-9 to live in MSP?

MSP is our smallest 330 base and is NOT a 747 base. If you insist on limiting instructors on those airplanes to pilots that live in MSP you are severely limiting the quality and quantity of the instructor cadre, because fNW that used to get paid hotels and per diem are not likely to do it on their own dime.

I suppose you would rather give those instructor jobs to non seniority list pilots or out of seniority pilots when they can't meet training demands for instructors. I'd rather have guys that are really good seniority list instructors regardless of where they live or are based.