Originally Posted by
Cujo665
The only three with actual no interview flow to a major are Envoy, PSA & PDT. All owned by AAG, the same parent company that owns American Airlines. Once hired at any of the three, you’re done interviewing and will just go to American when your seniority will hold the inter-company transfer (called flow).
The rest offer guaranteed interviews. Some offer the preferential hiring after working a few years, a few offer the mainline interview as part of the regional hiring process. If you are accepted by the mainline at the regional interview then you get “preferential hiring” which is still not a guarantee.
Honestly, the pilot shortage is just kicking into high gear starting this year. You should be able to get hired through the front door of a major or good LCC or good ACMI long before you’d actually flow to AA with their flow program. Flow is a nice backup policy if you want to be lazy and just wait. Otherwise, after you have 1000 part 121 and upgrade... keep the resume updated, keep attending job fairs, keep doing some volunteer work, become a check airman, keep networking your nuts off and apply.
TSA , COMPASS, GoJet Airlines = 1 interview, seniority based flow to Frontier now. Frontier will not hire pilots from those airlines outside their flow thru program with Trans States Holding Company. 2-years minimum on property (can flow even as FO upon final review of Pilots record at the airline only by Frontier) (for the record AAG does the same for Envoy, PSA, PDT) still no additional interview with Frontier.
Someone from TransStateHoldings company can correct me if I’m wrong, information above is what pilots from the property have told me.
AAG is not the only one using a One Interview only career, no test, seniority based flow.
Edited to Add:
The marketing for TSA-Frontier flow on the websites now says: “Guaranteed Flow.” AAG (PSA, PDT, envoy) do not even make those statements anymore which is telling of itself!
Think about that! AA stopped that “Guaranteed Flow” Many years ago with Eagle.