Originally Posted by coodrough568

wow you should really be Dougies under-desk boy and not just on APC since you know so much. Also the early retirements...if things were still moving the way they were, that would have only took out about 10 months. AA has about 1000 a year retiring through 2025. So some took it early, that time will burn up before this recovers. If they make it, along with UAL and DAL and whatever crappy regionals, there will be a bigger shortage when it’s said and done. All that is clear now is that AA is accepting they will be smaller when this is over. The one thing they have going for them is they can just “retire” to a smaller airline.

Sure the flow may be a carrot, but I’d still rather sit around and flow to a legacy in 10 years than get stuck at a regional for life. We can get hired outside of the flow, we can get hired at other majors. It’s not like we can’t leave and go somewhere else, but if all doesn’t work out, there is a flow. A family member of mine is a captain at AA. He tells me all the time his co pilots were “at so and so regional for 16 years”, so a 10 year flow still isn’t as bad as it could be. Maybe go talk to a counselor or something. Try to find something positive, seems like everyone on APC just wants to get on here and vent about $hit that doesn’t matter to them. Everything you say just screams “I picked a $hitty regional that went out of business and I’m just pi$$ed somebody else still has an opportunity that I didn’t get!”