Now that's funny right there.

AAG is only going to do what is absolutely necessary. Their intent is to keep the cheap labor at the regionals operating at cheaply as possible for as long as possible. Doug Parker and company aren't going to match the Endeavor pay rates unless our new hire classes start taking a serious hit in numbers. The management trolls in the envoy forum keep claiming flow to AA is the only thing we really need to be competitive. I seriously doubt AAG will ever offer AA numbers to WO new hires. First, because APA had a say in that process, and second because they want to hold the ability to flow over our heads for discipline purposes (after the protected pilots, you can't flow if you have an active "attendance issue," which basically means crew scheduling gets to do whatever they want and you have to play along, and don't call in sick too many times or dare ask F+H Solutions for FMLA.) Without a number, your flow is at their mercy, and that's exactly what they want. Numbers will never happen at the WO's unless things finally and epically break down and they merge them into AA, which will be the absolute last desperate step they would take if nothing else was working to staff the regionals.