Why don’t you advocate that AA wholly owned regionals be absorbed into mainline, and all flying on behalf of AA/ AAG be done by AA/ APA pilots on the APA seniority list?

Then AA would have complete control of their new hires, could bring back Neuro Cog Testing, the Astronaut Physical (including stool sample), raking Cecil’s leaves, and whatever other criteria you deem necessary to ensure the new hires are “worthy.”

You’ll have about as much luck with that argument as your present one. The Flow Through is at this point a staffing scheme for the wholly owned regionals, and seemingly is working. Why would mgt. change that? Certainly there are “outliers” who wouldn’t make it to a legacy any other way, but then again the above described process got us some real tools too. I'd say it’s about even.