Originally Posted by
FlyGuy2021
I expect them to skip a month in early summer, and maybe again later in the fall. It will be strategic.
By skipping a month, that means that the WO Regional Airlines get to keep a handful of experienced captains which they will need to survive.
AA has done this in the past. In 2019, AA was hiring about 100 per month, but skipped August all together. 2017 they skipped October and December. Both were times that regional captains were needed so it stopped flow. Just increase hiring for a couple months prior, and a month after, and the net gain is the same. But it reduced the number of flows.
Once the AA WO regionals start parking airplanes in the late Spring next year leading into the summer, watch what happens.
Poppycock.
The 2019 August had nothing to do with regional staffing, it was the MD displacements that blocked the training center.
AA doesn't give a damn about regional staffing, they need every soul they can hire. Thinking they hire and block flow strategically is just another APC urban legend.
I'd say there are more people with AA interviews from WOs than ever before.