Originally Posted by FirstClass

My statement has nothing to do with Envoy specifically, its a generalized statement. I'll put it this way. You're the CEO of a major airline. More pilots are going to be needed in the future to staff your major airline then currently work at the regional airlines. Where are you going to take your pilots from? Are you going to decimate your own feed or are you going to grab them from unaligned regionals?

I know Envoy pilots are excited about their flow, I get that. And when it works its a great thing for a few months. But when it comes down to it and the pilot shortage really starts to kick into high gear, AA is simply not going evacuate their entire feed (PSA, Envoy, Piedmont etc), they are going to pull the majority of their pilots from other non aligned sources. Maybe Delta will do the same thing and pull pilots from Envoy to protect their feed.

I don't know for sure and neither do you. Cracks are already developing in your flow as evidenced by recent postings here and we are only 2 months in to all the b*tching about it here. But it seems clear to me without a steady flow of new pilots to carriers such as Envoy, a new hire today at Envoy has to realistically weigh whether the flow will really apply to them or not or if the flow is only going to be applied to those precious 824 pilots who won the right years before them.

You called me Miss Cleo and I can see why, but to me it really just seems like common sense- don't destroy your own feed, destroys someone elses like Republic.