He meant there's 1200 pilots and 60 a year get to go to American. There are caveats for 96 a year. The whole program has only been in place for 2 years and will be changed again before it turns 3. So the projections for the bottom of the list really can't be calculated due to variable change.

If I were you I'd ignore the flow carrot. It's really a program for retention not recruiting.
If you remove the lifers and the guys hired since 07 there really aren't very many quality people "stuck" regionals. In fact I have yet to meet a pilot with the all the boxes checked, and no dirty laundry, hired prior to 07 whose phone hasent rang.