Originally Posted by
SSlow
There is absolutely no problem with this, but you are further proving my point while contradicting what you stated earlier in that most of the flows really want to go to AA and nowhere else. This is simply not the case or most of those pilots would be applying and making a serious effort to get in the door as quickly as possible.
For example, take one of my friends who was hired off the street at AA a few years ago and recently became one of the youngest CAs, if not the youngest, at American. Do you think that guy went to Envoy and waited on a flow thru program? Dude really wanted to be there and made it happen without the flow.
I'm genuinely happy that you ended up where you ultimately wanted to be, but don't kid yourself that everyone else feels the same way about AA being the end all be all for themselves. Like I said earlier, the path of least resistance. Pilots are lazy by nature and we know this because we're all pilots. You can't BS the BSer.
Believe what you want, personally AA was always my first choice and I went to American Eagle to try to get a foot in the door at AA before the flow even existed. I didn’t go to Envoy for the flow, but I also didn’t leave for an LCC or ULCC because of it. Which is exactly why it exist. AA was always my first choice and I didn’t even apply anywhere else, not because I’m lazy but because I didn’t want to work anywhere else. It’s not that we weren’t good enough to get hired somewhere else. I know for a fact there are others like me.
You say we are lazy by waiting for the flow, but by the time most people are competitive for a legacy job they are already about to flow. Good for your friend, AA does not hire many people from the WO outside of the flow. I know of a few, but it’s pretty rare. AA doesn’t hire many from anywhere that isn’t from the flow or military. There’s nothing wrong with getting in off the street either if you can, so that’s good for him.
There’s a lot of self-righteousness in this thread. Some just want to feel superior to the flows because they got hired the traditional way. Whatever the reason someone chooses to flow to AA, it doesn’t automatically mean they are an inferior candidate than someone hired off the street. Which is exactly what some are saying, by their candy and milk and cream analogies.