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Old 6th Aug 2016, 13:45
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bafanguy
 
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Striker26,


Yes, consolidating training facilities is understandable. I was just commenting that this point in history is not the best time to even temporarily decrease sim capacity. AA's training center, like UAL and DL, has been running in high blower for the last year or two and that will only need to increase over the next 10+ years if they intend to replace attrition one for one (admittedly an "if").

There was a time when one carrier could buy sim time from another carrier to handle a temporary training surge; this doesn't appear to be one of those times, at least here in the USA. They'll all muddle through somehow, I'm sure. The wheels will continue to turn !! ;-))
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