Just a bit of behind-the-scenes at Expressjet as revealed on another forum. It's from post #44 on the link. While the thread itself is about another subject, the quote (bold) appears to be from Expressjet internally:
"We've had a bunch of applicants who are still in training since April... That and a many others washing out.
It's so bad they're paying for a separate expensive week long course
after the ATP-CTP course that teaches these applicants basic pilot skills!"
"To increase our success with New Hire candidates, we have secured with FlightSafety a one week “pre-course” that covers general ground and turbojet sim training. Selected New Hires will attend this basic pre-program before they begin training at ExpressJet. Our goal is to match the ExpressJet ground and sim footprint for all candidates even if pilots lack recent currency or need a little help in understanding the airline environment. This “pre-course” will add significant costs, but we are hoping to make that up in (a) improved New Hire pilot success and (b) having our instructors focus on ExpressJet material – vs helping New Hires remedy core piloting skills. The first class will start this month and we will be gathering the metrics to judge the success."
https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/e...-aviate-5.html