Originally Posted by
Toolbox9909
AA will not hire you OTS, if you are working at envoy. Why pay you more, if they can pay you less.
The WOs have had a handful hired at AA outside of the flow this year, so that is not true.
As a non-military pilot, you have a far better chance of getting to AA from a WO than you do from SkyWest, as only 42 pilots hired OTS at AA this year (end of October stats) were civilian-trained. I’m not sure of the WO street hires’ backgrounds, so there may be some overlap between the WO street hires and those 42.
Even if flowing isn’t your plan, it’s not a bad back up plan.