Originally Posted by
bigtime209
AA hired 645 pilots in 2017. Out of that, 360 were flow throughs from the 3 WOs and 285 were street hires. Of the 360 flows, 263 came from Envoy, 52 from PSA, and and 45 from PDT. Only 60 of the pilots hired at AA in 2017 didn't come from a WO regional nor had any military training.
That’s all well and good if American is a must for you. Even in the mainline world AA isn’t the best just like how Envoy isn’t the best in the regional world. One could argue that mainline and lcc flying will be fairly similar in the coming years.