Originally Posted by
LRSRanger
If a wholly owned with a flow is essentially hiring for their mainline partner, do they have to follow specific hiring guidelines? If everyone with checkride failures and DUI's flocks to AA owned regionals, I don't imagine that AA is going to be too happy when everyone with too many skeletons in their closet to get hired anywhere else flows to their seniority list. Are they contractually required to accept anyone their wholly owned hires with no exceptions?
Yes, flow is guaranteed but their hiring standards might be a tad tighter for that reason. I understand one DUI is OK, not sure about two.
I assume you already resolved the DUI issue with the FAA and have a clean 1C?
I would recommend that you try really hard to get the flow. In the past lifer CA at OO or QX might not be the end of the world but the regionals are STRAPPED for pilots, so they are working everyone to the bone. And if they ultimately can't hire any FO's, the surviving regionals will consist of very senior lifer CA's flying with FO's who used to be not-so-senior lifer CA's.