In response to the Bernie Sanders "fair shot" nonsense, that's not at all what I said or what I implied. But I realize this is an election year and people tend to lose their chit over everything and anything. I'm not a millennial blaming others, it is what it is.

But what "it" is is quite simply, American Airlines has practically shut the door on guys who are not a flow and who do not have a military pedigree. Plain and simple. Yes, a trickle of straight civilian pilots make the cut. Again. A trickle. It was brought up in a different thread on this board that AA plans on hiring about 200 OTS guys this year, whereas Delta was planning the same number in two months.

I know dozens of guys here at Spirit who meet and exceed ALL of the requirements, who have thousands of hours of safe, non-eventful flying in their logbooks, thousands of hours of PIC time, who would kill for a chance at AA, yet can't even get an invite to interview, while low-time military pilots are getting scooped up by the dozens.

If that's not the definition of "fair shot" then I have no idea what is.

If you're a non-military non-flow pilot your chances of getting on to any of the three Legacies, based on tons and tons of anecdotal evidence on this board as well as various Facebook groups, seems to be as follows:

AA- Not impossible, but sharing the same zip code.
Delta- Somewhat easier.
United- Best chance of getting a call for an interview.