Not everyone working at a regional, LLC or ACMI will want to work for AA (they're not my number one at all), or even have the capability to do so owing to a plethora of extraneous circumstances. Also there are many less military aviators being produced today than in the past, and those aviators have much higher flexibility in selecting which carriers they will work for, and if you haven't noticed yet all the big players are hiring and demand will only go up for that limited pool of candidates in the future.

I think I will take my chances and avoid the AA wholly owneds like moldy bread, even if it means working somewhere for much longer to have the chance to work at AA. But I do wish everyone working there absolutely good luck with whatever the future has in store for them.