While it is true that those pilots will need to go somewhere, AA is going to still fly the routes with different aircraft. The pilots won't just backfill every available slot AA has.

AA will need pilots, there is no question about that whatsoever. Maddogs retiring might eat up a little bit of the estimated 10,000 pilots needed over the next 10 years, but not much of it.

I think AA is pretty happy with its regional feed/military feed of pilots. Remember, they are not stupid and they are privy to lots more data then we are, so I don't see them coming up short.