Originally Posted by
threeighteen
DUI was one of them, drug charges another, general discharge another. It's one thing to be an awesome dude/dudette with one black mark and get an interview and get hired at mainline, but AA has fired people who flowed with those things because they couldn't get hired anywhere else besides a regional and AA didn't want them at mainline.
That is not plausible, that they would not offer flow knowing the applicant had a disqualifying factor, and not tell the applicant. How would they do a bait and switch like that and not get sued?
If a pilot did something disqualifying after being accepted into flow, but before actually flowing then they should not flow. Whether they keep their job at the regional is another matter.
If a pilot did something while on probation at AA, then duh of course they get fired.
It is however 100% plausible that flow-eligible regional pilots did something disqualifying before flowing and didn't disclose that to anyone. It's also 100% plausible that AA does background checks on new hires (from any source) and found such an issue. Duh, fired again.