Originally Posted by
tom11011
That might be what they publish, but the truth is it wouldn't be sustainable, they would have to hire from other regionals.
The best way for American to deal a blow to their competition is to hire the talent away from other regionals, not destroy their own regional. One could look at the flow as a management tool to control the attrition rate of departing regional pilots. One could also theorize that regionals without any flow agreement would move through the hiring system the fastest.
You're missing their intent. The front door to AA will only be through Envoy. They'll take 60 a month from Envoy to fill classes, and Envoy will hire 60 a month continuously. They will hire from other regionals, but they'll be hired at Envoy. AA HR will do all pilot selection and hiring for Envoy. You get your date of hire for AA when you start at Envoy. Their pipeline program will also be expanded.
So, you can go fly for RAH and hope to be hired someplace after a few years; or you can get hired by AA starting at Envoy with your date of hire for AA starting right then at Envoy. You can then apply anywhere just like a RAH guy, or you can just transfer in seniority order to AA.