Pilot shortage
Pilot shortage-Just a thought
Airlines should loosen the grip on training to companies like Alteon, a subsidiary of Boeing for their Boeing aircraft training and CAE/Airbus for all their Airbuses requirements. This would release lots of highly paid TRE/TCE from simulator work and earn their living, flying & doing line training.
Alteon & CAE/Airbus could provide customer base training as long as their instructors follow the respective Airlines rules & procedures. For compliance airlines could have quality assurance pilots monitoring the contract instructors/checker.
As a matter of interest Korean Airlines have been on this program for nearly 9 years & later Asiana too. Alteon & Airbus (Korea) provides customer based Initial conversion, requalification, periodic training & checking to all the A/C types with KAL
There is a large source of retired experience pilots who are capable of doing this job. If you treat this group as another pilot with age restriction then you’re going nowhere. Just look at PPrune and you’ll see their inputs!
Oldbag