The interim Indian training arrangement is pretty small beer - six studes at a time - and should not be imposing too severe a burden on Valley. If it is then there's something we should be told.
For a while, 19 closed its doors to ab initio RAF studes. The weight of running Indian courses, coupled with refreshers, crossovers, and RN studes meant there just wasn't the capacity.
Hence everyone for a few courses went to NFTC. NFTC was meant to take a couple of studes per course, and suddenly it was taking 5; even with the reduced course sizes. Ergo, more holding.
Now, there seems to be a small amount of space on 19, but it's still 1 RAF and 1 or 2 RN studes per 208 course getting there, with the remaining all bimbling west.
We were told at the time that the Indians wouldn't affect our throughput, as they'd run separate courses. However, 19 could still only take so many courses per year, and now half of those were Indian....