Originally Posted by
Naviator
AA wants more pilots to flow from Envoy, but Envoy won’t let it happen right now as they are short on CAs and they want to grow. AA would rather hire a WO pilot OTS than lose him to UAL, DAL, etc. cause you know if his app is in at AA it’s in elsewhere as well.
This is absolutely not true, and even logically it's faulty. If AA was truly concerned about losing WO pilots to UAL, Delta, they could easily resolve that by filling 100% of its classes with WO pilots. But, they don't, regardless if Envoy mgmt wanted to hold you back. Flow is a recruiting gimmick that fills envoy classes while keeping work rules cheap for the company, hence AA.
The reason we exist is because we are the outsourced cheap labor. That is it. And the promise of a flow keeps labor costs even lower when compared to most other regionals' overall pay credit.
And to add to that, the mgmt will be able to use the flow as a disciplining tool in the near future, because they can withhold your flow arbitrarily for any infraction via a step letter in your file.