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I currently attend Monarch Air in Addison and thought I would contribute.

Monarch is an excellent flight school for what it offers, and that is single engine flight training with minimal multi. In fact I believe Monarch is the best flight school in the area and one of the best in the country in that category.

Now, as has been stated before you need Multi time to get hired by airlines. Simply put, you will not get very much multi time as an instructor at Monarch. As a student you will only have roughly 11 hours of multi after your checkride. As an instructer you would be lucky to get 12 hours a month...very lucky.

Now, I hear and read about ATP students moving on the the airlines after 12, 13, 14 months of starting their training. Meanwhile Monarch has instructors who have been INSTRUCTING for over 1 year, some going on 2 1/2 years and have no interview even on the horizon.

That is not a reflection on the quality of flight training at Monarch. Like I said before, Monarch offers SUPERB training. But the reality is that they have only 1 twin, and you will not get very much multi time.

On the other hand, ATP offers something like 200 hours of Multi during training alone, and God knows how many more during instructing. So if your goal is the airlines, it comes down to a matter of facts. And fact is that ATP will get you to the airlines MUCH quicker than Monarch.