Originally Posted by
WhiskeyKilo
Why do pilots care about flows right now when you can get hired off the street at damn near any 121 carrier right now? It's only going to get easier in the future with +23,000 consecutive retirements through 2025. Get your 1000 121 PIC time and fire off applications. Hell, just get in the left seat and start sending them out everywhere you want to work at.
Flows are for suckering new hires in. Money talks and Endeavor still has the best compensation package in the business.
The same reason some care about the Delta interview that working for Endevaor guarantees them? American has excellent bases and many people would like to work there over the other 2 legacies. Think about it... as a new hire, you're going to have to spend roughly 2-2.5 years building the prerequisite time to upgrade no matter where you go. You do that at a WO, upgrade to CA, and spend roughly 4-5 years as a CA before you flow. Seems like a completely reasonable timeline. And unlike at Endeavor, where your chances of getting the job offer after interviewing are about 50-65%, the flow to American has a 100% success rate. No interview. You don't get an offer from Delta, you're left applying to United with thousands of others because American isn't exactly hiring a ton of pilots off the street. At an American WO, you can apply at Delta and United while waiting on the flow. Last month at PSA, we lost more pilots to Delta and United than we did to the flow.