The issue wasn't whether her rep could take care of it but rather why would a CP even be involved? As for the "cost" this was what the CP was stating to her so evidently somebody somewhere up the food chain was using this as the reason.

were there training issues? not justifying it, just curious as to why this would happen.

Not that I am aware of. But even if there were what difference would it make?

It shouldn't.

Just trying to see why they may have gotten such an odd call given its all contract. They didn't want off the 744, they were kicked off and then they got to go back in short order, thats not their (the pilots) problem.

Yea, same here......:)

Strange! It's never been a problem before. But maybe now Crew Resources will start taking things like this into account when they make their decision. I've heard of guys getting a different award on a later AE without having gone to training yet on the first one and still being made to finish out the initial award. They were only online for one or two months in the intial category. Doesn't make sense to me and seems it would be cheaper to run a category a few short and use green slips than to make someone go through a two training events in short time. Hopefully they can do better with this. Irregardless the call from the CP should have never happened.

40 737s were ordered for an unidentified customer evidently.

SWA?

Doubt it....

They have boatloads of options already and enough on their plate with the addition of Airtran...

Cheers
George

Never, very strange..

In fact once I flew with a LCA who told me that it is worth it to DAL to retrain you when you do just one trip (4 day, I presume). I.e. the training is paid for with one trip because DAL's contract training bringing money in.

Another guy in the training center told me that at DAL pilot training is free because of contract training.

Sorry but training is not free, even if the contract brought in money, the cost of the sim, the pilot off line, the instructors, the benefits. Nah...not free.