Originally Posted by
tom11011
Flow through is a scam designed to slow the flow of regional pilots to the major airlines, not quicken it.
Management is one step ahead of you guys on this, think about this critically for a minute.
Regional airlines that do not have any flow through agreements arranged with major airlines will lose pilots the quickest. Major airlines will turn to these carriers first as to not upset the balance with their regional partners they have an agreement with.
Flow through has never worked properly and never will. Unless the major airline is handing out seniority numbers today, its just another carrot to keep you inline. Ask your union to take flow through out of your next contract and exchange it for something else and see what happens.
Absolutely, why would AA want to flow an Eagle pilot or hire a PSA pilot? It creates a training cycle. Hiring from another regional will most likely not do that unless that pilot flies under the American Eagle brand.
Mainline management will protect their regional feed and delay the flow as long as possible. They are already metering Eagle and delaying PSA interviews until the last possible moment (they could still violate the agreement)