American Airlines created a training backlog ON PURPOSE just to screw Envoy...more over, to screw ORDinary specifically. They are targeting him personally.

I mean..sure. Having a thousand MD-80 pilots needing to re-train on different equipment on top of the need to hire and train new pilots, upgrade FOs to Captain, all plus the usual recurrent needs...all that COULD be seen as a normal and understandable reason for a training department bursting at the seams.

OR, we could go with the first and more likely scenario. This is all a ploy to personally screw with Envoy pilots. Thanks for this wonderful thread. It's added so much to our knowledge. Since we are on topic, how much has United and Delta been hiring? And if AA slows down hiring, is it just for flow throughs or would that include street hires as well?

Final question: can we assume that AA won't increase their training capacity at any time ever? The current amount of instructors they have is the amount they will always have? We can safely say they won't hire any new instructors ever, right? Cool...that's what I was thinking as well.

Thanks fake rondon!