Perhaps that’s right now. Hasn’t always been the case. During an interview prep course a quote that was shared from an Eagle recruiter, “Our fingernails are bleeding from scraping the bottom of the barrel”

And I believe it. The 1500 hour rule hit the regional airlines hard and qualified candidates were hard to come by. FOs were taking 80 hours to complete OE and even then the regular line captains were left to teach... A LOT.

Anyway. Happy to hear it has gotten better (at least at Envoy)

Jumping back... if AA had a problem, they would change it. If the rumor of 10+ probationary pilots being fired last year is true, then the bad apples make themselves known and the current system works just fine.