Originally Posted by Cujo665

You could expect some of the most professional training in the industry. You'd be assigned to one of three fleet types. You'd be based in either DFW or ORD. Your hotel would be single occupancy in training. You'd be going to the AA Training Center for all your sim sessions.

You would have the best travel benefits in the regional industry, even if it is hard to non-rev; you learn how to get around the system fairly quickly. You'd be on reserve, which now provides hotels before or after your reserve block of days. If on a trip sequence and you misconnect, cancel, or somehow end up in base for whatever reason, if your trip had an overnight, you get a hotel in base. We have guys getting rid of their crashpads. We do have ready reserve shifts, and while you're junior you'd probably get your share of them.

Forward looking projection based on what they're saying -
You chould expect the upgrades to restart soon, the flow to continue sending our pilots to fill 50% of each AA class. This would be 270-360 upgrades a year as that many flow to AA. With a 2200 pilot company, 200 on some type of leave, and 300 going to retire here that leaves about 1700 that will flow. With 300 a year flowing, it's about 6 years from street hire to AA.

You can do your American Airlines interview now, work at Envoy less than 6 years and just transfer to AA with no interview at all. Just fill out the AA paperwork, and go to class. A nice backup insurance policy to have. We get 50% of every new hire class, and recently we've gotten 66%.