Originally Posted by
TangoAlphad
They definitely check (and cut a fair number) now.
There is also a significant number of management pilots in Norwegian that are ex Ryanair. There are also a number of Captains, LTCs and TREs operating there, of which none did a sim check between 2013/2014 joining Norwegian as FOs. At that time no ex Ryanair recruit had ever failed an OCC course. There was others that did.