Who (a name not a position) was telling people Compass was the only way to get to NWA? I see some parrot that statement on here and it seems ridiculous and would have seemed even more ridiculous at the time. I kept very on top of NWA hiring news back then and I never once heard that, even if I did I think it would be quite obvious that wasn't the case. Just the length of time it took to earn a flowup spot made it very likely there would be street hiring way before a single Compass pilot was eligible to flow. NWA was on the brink of some massive age 60 attrition at the time and no one at Compass was going to be anywhere close to flowing up yet.