Originally Posted by
RomeoSierra
There was some truth to "you could have what you want before training ended." Vacancy bids where coming out once a month earlier this year. There hasn't been one in a while that's why people are not saying that any more. Rumor is one is coming.
Rumor I heard was that all flow throughs to AA are stopped until March 2012 because the AA training department is overrun from the hundreds of recent retirements. Most of the retirements came from the 777 including at least 25 IOE captains. All the vacancies resulted in a huge training bubble that prevents AA from taking in any new pilots.
I'm not sure of the accuracy of all this but it sounds pretty reasonable.