because there is a WORLDwide shortage of 737 sim time?
Have you got any evidence of this?
Boeing in Brisbane are definitely not running their sims 24 hours a day. Whether this is due to a lack of instructors is possible but since I am not seeing adverts for sim instructors then I doubt it.
Is the reason TT pilots are being paid to do nothing, because there is a WORLDwide shortage of 737 sim time?
Wasn't it because it took TT a great deal longer than expected to get the B737 on to their AOC to allow training?