AA firmly believes the flow is a primary retention/ recruitment tool to keep its Wholly Owned regionals staffed and thus its domestic flying highly profitable.

Interestingly enough there are some in management circles who see issuing seniority #s to WO pilots as the long term solution to keep the WOs staffed during the pilot shortage (since they’re already AAG employees). No Idea now it would work but in typical fashion if the pilot group is against it, management is probably for it.