BTW: talking to a few FAIPs I keep in touch with in the last two weeks: T-1 students can now qualify for bombers, as well as traditional C-category airplanes.
When I qual'd as a T-38 IP in the 90s, the last big airline hiring boom was on. Fighter-pilot retention was low....about 32%. They had a limited number of fighter-crossflow back then from Heavy to fighter, if the pilot had flown the T-38 as a student.
It's on again, and this time, they will even consider pilots who went T-1 track. Lowest tier, but a possibility. I think the pecking order was 1. T-38 student/graduate; 2. could have tracked T-38 but MASS (grading scores) not high enough for the number of slots, 3. and then T-1 track.