Originally Posted by
FirstClass
I assure you its not. Try to have some vision.
If you are American Airlines, how would you preserve your regional flow?
You could:
1.) Mandate all new hires at American come through their regional feed, no exceptions including military.
2.) When the regional feed becomes as expensive as simply operating those aircraft in house, that's what you do, fly RJ's in house.
One has a large price tag. The other does not. Option 1 creates a new rung on the career ladder.
No, I agree that all civilian hires may have to come from the regional. However, military pilots will always be the first selected of pilot candidates for the majors. If you ran a company, you would understand that veterans are almost always better employees than non-veterans. Also, the only quantifiable education these days is the military academies, as even Ivy legal has become a joke.