When I started reading through the legal agreement after being accepted into Aviate I realized 70% of it didn’t apply to me. It applies to college students. The gist of it is you have to get your CFI and be at least a sophomore at a participating university. The participating universities haven’t even been announced yet. Anyway, they are going to start interviewing college sophomores, giving them their sign on bonus and forcing them to go to their regional carriers with the promise of flying for UAL in 2 years after graduation.

Especially with the current MAX scenario, they have no incentive to hire currently qualified pilots. The point of the program is for UAL to get first pick of the guys they want while they are still in college. This will give them position above AA for first pick. Everyone else gets leftovers.

That’s the point of the program. No more. No less.