Flow may flow, flow may trickle, or in a real downturn with furloughs at the majors the flow might be shut off altogether. Or AA management may just make a business decision to just take outside hires to avoid pulling pilots away from their wholly owneds. And what can the regional pilots do? Grieve it and fly anyway?

And you can rest assured that the AA mainline pilots aren't going to do anything to protect the flow rights of the wholly owned pilots. They'd rather reduce that scope or eliminate it altogether.