Lol

OK, let us examine Baseball's missive!

Curios [SIC] why Kirby didn't do this at American? Kirby wasn't CEO of American. Also, there is a spelling mistake. I fault myself for not including 'learn to write' in my comment. Generally, I assume someone who is literate can spell or at least notice the convenient red squiggly line this website provides to catch mistakes.

I don't think this profession is for everyone. What does this have to do with people of color or women? are THEY the ones this profession is for? Or is he saying people who need scholarships for flight training? Poor people or minorities, either of those does not look very good. Very telling statement. sad.

I don't want our company spending our profit sharing on "zero time (ab-initio) social justice experiments." Now that we have the poor spelling, illogical American Airlines question and (very thinly) veiled racism out of the way let's address the main crux of my disagreement with captain Baseball.

Baseball makes a few points in this sentence, universally incorrect ones.
1. That this won't be revenue positive. They are charging for the school and were able to bring in outside funding.
1a. That we don't need this school to ensure pilots are trained to fill our regional and mainline hiring needs in the future.
2. "zero-time" These pilots will matriculate along the same path as ... EVERY OTHER COMMERCIAL PILOT ... in the US.
3. (ab-initio) This is not an ab-initio program. He's wrong.
4. 'social justice experiments' I guess he isn't aware that these days we allow black people and women to attend flight school? Once again, this is about scholarships to a flight school. I'm not really sure if this is racism or misunderstanding of the program, it's probably both. My best guess is he thinks we are going to put unqualified 250 hour women in HIS! flight deck?

Anyway, I'm skeptical of management being able to manage a lemonade stand but them offering people who make up more of the population than white males yet represent 10% of our ranks isn't something I'm particularly upset about.

I'm sure you are upset about us offering help to family or United pilots get interviews as well, yes? Shouldn't we be impartial and hire only the most qualified, not someone who can 'check a box'