Originally Posted by
Apokleros
Given that AA will soon be hiring loads of folks off the street this upcoming year and the ones thereafter, going to an AA wholly owned won't matter in the slightest if one's goal is to end up there. They will most definitely NOT flow regionals out of existence. Anyone with sufficient flight time and experience can apply to AA and have a good shot at going there soon, no matter which regional one chooses to work for.
You clearly have no idea how it works. I originally wasn't even going to entertain this post, but you sucked me in. Here goes:
Currently 70%+ of AA classes are flows. That will continue for another 2-3 years at which point flows will be 50%. That means for the next 2-3 years off the street hires at AA will only be 30% or less. Eventually they will be 50%.
So with such a relatively low number of off the street hires, you can count on all of them being a combination of ex-military and family with deep connections. Your "loads of street hires" comment is inaccurate, and in any case AA has over 11,000 applications including just about every single Captain and FO flying for the LCCs. So why, pray tell, would they hire a 1,000 hour Regional wonder ahead of everyone else? Wake up.