Originally Posted by
dera
Your logic has a serious flaw.
Pilot flowing costs AA the same first year salary as an OTS hire.
Pilot NOT flowing costs AA higher regional rate, plus the same new hire rate for the OTS guy who they hired.
Pilot flowing can be replaced with a first year regional guy. That is way cheaper than hiring pilots direct to mainline OTS.
I don’t say this often or ever but I agree with you on this. That guy was smoking some strong peyote. He has some serious flaws in his rationale.