Originally Posted by SystemB

I think that there might a key point about Aviate that important to understand. One of the main reasons for the Aviate program was to maintain adequate staffing at UAX, not mainline. To do so, the pipeline to mainline was the payoff to the participants. Mainline will always have adequate staffing from people presently working at UAX and others.
UAX is likely to be doing plenty of flying in the near future; therefore, it makes sense for the company to keep Aviate alive and well and to keep producing a steady stream of vetted, compliant, committed pupils for UAX. And if they make it to mainline 5, 6, 10 years down the road, good for them.
This is just a guess, but it makes sense to me.
As a soon-to-be-downgraded UAL CA, I have more things to worry about than the future of Aviate, but I don’t see why it would be a bad thing for UAL to keep it going.