Originally Posted by
sailingfun
What Delta has done in every other merger is keep the training facilities open for a few years. Eventually they close them and move everything to Atlanta. I believe they have a lot of bays that are not in use and many have sims for equipment we no longer have. It does not make sense from a cost standpoint to run two training centers. They have made promises to MSP for the near term but long term I would not expect them to run two training centers.
Sailing I don't doubt that a bit but in a way if everything is done on CD and the only thing you really do at the training center is the ftds and sims why go through the expense of making a move or dealing with 1 facility?
You could, like you said, move every MSP sim, once the 9 is retired, to ATL. There are I think 13 bays that are either opened or belong to MD11s and an L1011 and I think there are 12 sims in MSP (not including the 9).
But why? Delta of old maybe would've but this isn't necessarily Delta of old nor is the training system the same. But if it happens it happens, I just hope they get some lighting, paint, carpets and a clean up crew in OC1. The place is messy. 2 is better and 3 is fantastic, but 1... could use a little sprucing up.