Originally Posted by
Mason32
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.
The only problem is Envoy will not be able to hire 60 per month. There are some pilots near the end of the training pipeline right now. There are other pilots who will jump ship and join. Then there will likely be 2 airline failures this year to capture pilots. --but after that, there is nothing really in the pilot pipeline. The industry is just now starting to scratch the surface of this problem. Imagine what it will look like in 6 months. The shortage doesn't even peak for another 6 years.