Originally Posted by rdneckpilot

i know how it works. I was a captain at PSA up until February of this year when I left.

if you were a PSA, envoy or Piedmont pilot and every pilot senior to you was electing not to flow you would be the first guy out... right.

so follow this for a second. American does not have any new hire classes running and they furlough 1000 pilots. It takes 3 years for all the furloughed pilots to get recalled. Then they run the first new hire class in a 3.5 year period of time. Guess what. It added 3.5 years to your flow time. Call it what you want. It’s a preferential hiring program. Until a pilot “flows” and is handed their AA badge and given an APA number they do not work for American Airlines.

I was a captain at PSA which happened to be owned by the same holdings company as American. I enjoyed access to a preferential hiring program that didn’t even require me to interview. All I had to do was have a clean record for the preceding two years and have two years aggregate captain experience. I was not an American pilot.

Saying anything otherwise is not being honest.