Originally Posted by pitchattitude

you have to read a little deeper. The whole contention here is that aa is slated to hire something like 40-50% more this year, yet flow is decreasing by one third. In the distant past it has been as high as nearly two thirds of aa hires were envoy, not even counting psa and piedmont, flow. This year envoy flow will barely be 12-15% of aa hires.

Bottom line is unless aa and envoy up flow numbers envoy will be hiring many more than flowing. That means the only way for flow time to decrease is through massive outside attrition.

It is simple math. Every thing else is just smoke and mirrors koolaid colored bs rhetoric.