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PRS Guitars
That used to be the case, but they've sent out a few emails saying that LOR's were part of the selection process. With that said, I'd bet that they are just saying that to placate the pilots, and that they don't look at them until late in the process, pure guess though...
I flew with one of the pilot interviewers. He said he never saw a letter of rec and his guess was that they are used for points in the algorithm to get a call/might be looked at at the final review level.