Originally Posted by eaglefly

AA doesn't have to STOP hiring for this whole sales pitch to begin major constipation, all they have to do is slow it. In the past, AA hired 80-100 pilots/month and we've been short-staffed for years, yet they continue a hiring plan half the rate they once could do with relative ease.

EVERYTHING can be manipulated for many reasons. Some of us have seen this before (and repeatedly), but thousands of pie-eyed babes in the woods haven't and not surprisingly cannot understand anything but their own intoxication. It will be sad to see yet another generation of suckers fall down the same rabbit hole as many of those that preceded them if history repeats itself in even a small degree, but alas, that is the nature of the dopey airline pilot.