Right back atchya! I didn't say that there was a contractual prohibition against AA hiring W/O'd pilots outside of the flow. I wrote that it was AA "POLICY" to not hire W/O'd pilots outside of the flow.

There may have been a couple of Envoy pilots hired outside of the flow, I have no knowledge to support or refute that allegation, but I know that there have been ZERO PSA pilots hired at AA, outside of the flow since the inception of the S.S.P. and/or flow. I also have heard of no Piedmont pilots hired outside of the flow.

There may be no contractual prohibition against AA hiring W/O's pilots outside of the flow, but clearly it ain't happening! And besides, the point I was trying to make is that some of us may THINK that it's nice to have the flow "in our back pocket" when, in fact, we have just reduced our options for going to one of the major airlines by 1.