Originally Posted by
ZeroTT
Lets offer another analogy: halloween candy
You come home with all your goodies. You eat 10% of your candy. Is the rest of it crap that no one would eat? No. It’s candy. It’s yummy. Sure maybe there’s one or two crappy things but it’s yummy candy.
BUT ... the bestest yummiest candy mostly gets eaten first. Not all of the good stuff. Not saying what was left is bad. But stuff that goes first is most of the awesome stuff.
Thats not a good analogy. Once again, you are assuming that all flows are trying to get out of the WO to the first airline that calls and only flow if no one else calls. That's not true. A lot of the flows have no desire to go to anywhere but AA and AA pretty much only hires through the flow or military. We all weren't passed up by United, Delta, UPS, and FedEx. They didn't get to cherry pick all the good candidates and AA is left with just ok ones. A good portion of us never even apply to those places because we didn't want to work there.
Sure if a guy has a competitive resume to all those other airlines and is still a long way to flow, then they would be dumb to not apply to the others. However, if a guy still needs time at the regionals to be competitive and AA is their 1st choice then there is nothing wrong with waiting to flow. Think of it as their interview is successfully working at a WO for around a decade. If they have attitude problems, they will probably wash out before their probation year is over. I'd bet that is a very small percentage.