The email from Dave Tatum doesn’t indicate a shortage whatsoever for AA. Now granted he could be blowing smoke to boost hiring at the feeder carriers.
Also, AA considers sim instructors who don’t fly 200+ hrs a yr to be unhireable. I know of many instructors who have apps in that can’t get a call due to “not being current” or “out of aviation”
Gonna be a wild next 10 yrs if the Legacies have to hire anyone and everyone they can get to apply. Makes the 91 and 135 worlds panic.