Hold your horses guys!
8 FOs where given a date
Indeed so, but those where guys selected in April 2007. The last one of them starts training in March 2008 (11 months after selection)
36 others are selected
Indeed so, but this list includes the selection meeting of june and th guys selected last week. All of them still need to pass by the desk of the CEO for approval, before they can even start their training, flights,interview and upgrade training.
So the last one of this group will hopefully start his training April 2009!!!
A320 can handle between 2 and 4 upgrades/month
A330 upgrades are suspended untill further notice due to the fact that there are way to many captains allready on that fleet! Just look at the number of flights leaving with two captains.
DEC is stopped on A320 and A330 and one of the reasons are the upgrades. The last DEC on A330 will be trained in feb 2008 (he is on the waitinglist right now)
Management wants to increase upgrade training...
Lets see how the new management team will deal with this problem...