The point of FLOW is to dangle a carrot that doesn't exist in front of young impressionable college students by showing them a half baked slideshow depicting a shiny new 175 next to a 787 and giving them a lanyard that says AA on it. Don't worry, the abuse you suffer on the clapped out 145 that you'll actually end up flying combined with a crap contract and crap work rules will only be temporary as you'll soon be captaining a wide body jet across the pond. Sprinkle in a few bozo social media influencers with feel good music showing how awesome it is to fly your bucket of bolts 5 times a day back and forth to Charleston WV to your min rest overnight and management has all they need. Hook line and sinker. Don't worry though, the recruiter told you 5.5 years and you'll be at mainline and they certainly were not lying!

Now as for why anyone would drink that thick pitcher of kool aid and snake oil..not sure. You'd have to ask somebody who actually fell for it.