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Don’t know the specifics of the program, but wouldn’t you have to be an actual intern as opposed to employee. If you’re only allowed to get paid by the military, that’s going to be a problem, as you are paid for training at the airline...
Yes. It will not happen under an union CBA. Airlines are not allowed to use non-seniority list members as pilots, with a very few exceptions for management pilots. But in the later case, I can only think of one company (UPS) which hires management pilots off the street, and you would not be eligible for union seniority, ie you'd always be management. So kind of like the military, come to work M-F regardless, and fly whenever they need you to (nights, weekends, holidays, etc).
The concept of the DoD bridge program is not compatible with something like airline line flying.