I think the 1500 hour rule would destroy any hopes they had of replicating what they've done in Europe though. As far as I can see from the article it is just going to be a new training facility for the existing trainees from Europe etc, not an attempt to provide training for US citizens.
Interesting that they say they are investing $7 Million in the facilities. As far as I know the facilities there are all owned by Lufthansa. The claim that this will result in an ability to train upto 200 pilots a year there is also ambiguous since that is the number that Oxford regularly sent there.
Gotta love the quote: Rob Clarke, Group CEO of CTC Aviation said “The airline industry has been predicting an impending pilot shortage for some time now"
Yeah, for about 40 years now I think..