Originally Posted by
AboveAndBeyond
AA is still able to hire plenty of pilots, they give their training department a chance to catch up, and best of all...they have to only flow 10 classes worth instead of 12 classes. Since the AA WO only have to flow pilots in months that AA hires, they don't have to flow as many. For PSA, that would mean 20 less flows per year. AA wins and PSA/PDT/Envoy management win. Those that get stuck at PSA longer because of this lose.
Robin Williams had a bit where he called an idea particularly ineffective by saying "that's like putting gauze in front of an 18 wheeler and saying "Come on through!"
Hiring 10 instead of 12 months/year would save 20 captains at PSA. Few more at Envoy, few less at Piedmont. Better than nothing but nowhere near a match for the problem.
As for the WO's paused flow for operational necessity, that would really open the attrition floodgates. AA would instead lose a multiple of the number they saved to literally everyone else in the airline universe. ULCC's are hiring, big 6 are hiring, ACMI are hiring. Other regionals likely to be poaching experienced captain-capable pilots. The only way this ends well is if they make people WANT to stay at the WO's.