Doesn’t AA have about 15000 pilots on their list? Getting down to 7300 is magnitudes worse than anyone is proposing right now, so whatever that clause is, I wouldn’t worry about it.

As for the second part... a promise to give preferential hiring to furloughs is WAY different than “flow back”. I think most companies have a similar clause (I know UA used to pre-merger). If ENY/PSA/PDT aren’t hiring it’s meaningless, and at most it would be cause for a battle between some furloughees and cadets 12 months from now.