Originally Posted by
THKooj
With the flow thru in place, the recruiting team was essentially having to vet candidates for American as they were hired to AA standards. Maybe not in hours or experience but in background. As an example, the "perfect" candidate graduated high school and immediately enrolled in a partner university that is part of the pipeline program. Said candidate sails through and gets high marks in flight training while obtaining the equivalent degree. Candidate graduates around the age of 22 on average and then instructs at said university until the high 1400 hour mark and is put through ATP/CTP by Envoy and goes online at the Voy after completion essentially beginning a life long career at American. The perfect candidates also found some time to volunteer at a charity or other organization to give back to the community. The ideal Envoy would be 100% pipeline graduates at some future date with no leftover lifers from years ago who got lucky after flying a Baron around West Texas for Virgil's Oil Bidness. When Envoy finally purges the last of the lifers, that's the how the ideal overall Envoy demographic looks.
Ignoring the fact that THecoochie is trolling everyone....
I flew at a WO for two or so years. One captain left the engines running and went to the hotel. He them FaceTimed the ground crew in some podunk outstation from his hotel room (probably while eating a cheeseburger) and told them how to shut the jet down. Classic!
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