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Old 06-11-2018, 11:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Cujo665 View Post
The wholly owned regionals will be given an even larger percentage of flow through mainline hiring as a means to force pilots to fly their regional feed for the opportunity of a mainline job. When 90% of all mainline new hires come directly from their owned regionals, you either fly for the WO career path you want, or fight with everybody else for that small 10% off the street window which will be friends, family and military direct hires. Good luck. This makes the WO regionals the entry level position to get to Delta, United & American.
That is where this is headed. That is how they will keep their WO staffed.
The only mergers could/would be among the several WO to form a single WO, much like AA did previously with all their "eagles."
Very insightful post, but one question, devil's advocate....

Why would the majors cannibalize their own WO regionals? Why not reduce the flow to a trickle and hire as much as they can from outside of their WO's in order to hurt their competition's WOs?
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