Originally Posted by RyanP

Hey, I don't care and have no problem admitting it. I know AA won't hire me OTS. Not a military pilot, or CP or a Female, or a Fleet manager, or a recruiter, or an *** kisser, or a son of a special case. Good thing for the flow or I would probably never get a job at AA in a domicile I want, despite thousands of hours of PIC. That is kinda the whole point of why we like the flow and tell people its a good thing to have in your back pocket. For when the reality of hiring practices at a Legacy sets in.

Myself along with hundreds of other Captains here can't get a (Legacy) interview despite checking all the boxes, multiple type ratings, perfect training records, volunteering, good GPA's, way more flight time and experience than these quick upgrade chasers, stacks of internal recs, and playing all the job fair games to boot. HR is in control of hiring these days. Turbine PIC isn't as important as "other" things now. Better hope you can appease whatever some 23 year old Human Resource major pulling apps who knows zip about aviation thinks, and hope your Airline Apps algorithm calculation triggers the right parameters to not be rejected outright. Oops, took 5 years to get your degree? Too bad for you. No chance to explain. Longer than 10 years at a regional? Untrainable, and Unacceptable. Non Tier 1 candidate. No chance to explain. NEXT.

The people chasing PIC time haven't realized it yet that the magic 1,000 TPIC isn't the golden ticket to the big 3 like they were told it was. I'd take the flow any day over waiting for that phone call that likely may never happen.