Was told 12-14 months to command if suitably qualified.
That's unlikely! It doesn't factor in failures now ( quite high sadly ) who will come back through the system in 12 months and it seems overly ambitious on training capacity and ability.
I'd say three years which is dependent upon a healthy economy and a healthy plan for KA from its owners.
KA used to be big on hand flying in the sim at stage two. Easy on an Airbus even in raw data. Since CX took over there has been an unfortunate move away from these competencies so perhaps you now go into sim and fly around on auto-pilot making long winded and inane briefs identifying stuff like night time, KA coffee and your home port as threats.
