Originally Posted by
encore
I don't get it. We're approaching a time where airlines are going to be competing for the best applicants and AA suspends hiring?
Why not just hire these people and put them into a pool? Or give them an indoc class and pay them to sit around until they're ready to send them to training?
Gotta get them while they're still there or UA and DL are going to get ahead of AA and they'll never be able to catch back up.
With thousands and thousand of applications, I don't think they'll run out of qualified applicants soon. I doubt it makes sense to hire people and let them sit in the pool for months on end. It costs a lot of money to interview them (positive space ticket, hotel room, testing, etc.), complete background checks and drug testing, etc. and then they would likely get hired by another airline and take a class before they ever get put into into class by AA. Paying them to sit around after indoc would cost too much.