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country. Finally, Eastern points to the fact that the estimate for supervisory personnel and flight captains contemplates a training period of two months. It is maintained that no estimate can be placed on the time required for supervisory training due to job difficulties and the fact that flight captains serve over six years as co-pilots prior to promotion to captain. Eastern maintains that a large percentage of the cost incurred during such time should be charged to training costs.

National questions the validity of Eastern's estimate on the grounds that Eastern would have to pay higher wages to these employees than to untrained personnel as a result of the longevity provisions in wage agreements, that no consideration has been given to the fact that Colonial's employees would have to be trained to Eastern's procedures and that Eastern's employees are trained on the job in a large part.

As pointed out by Eastern the higher wages of experienced personnel would be offset by the greater productivity of such employees. This the Board has recognized on prior occasions. 13/ As pointed out by Eastern, the expenses entailed in its estimate for these employees covers the training of new employees without airline experience and who, at the end of such training, would be green employees. The cost savings considered is that entailed in

13/ Northeast Airlines, Inc., Mail Rates, Docket Nos. 1932 and 1890, Order Nos. E-7368 and E-7443, dated 6/5/53; and Braniff Airways, Inc., Domestic Operations Mail Rates, Docket No. 6483, Order No. E-8402, dated June 3, 1954, and Order No. 8440, dated June 15, 1954.