This is a dumb take. If an airline is bought by another airline, all those pilots move to the airline no matter what. You can't just terminate and fire them.

They're taking in pilots without bachelors degrees. What do you think is a bigger media frenzy... The media finding out the pilot crashed the plane had a couple of training unsats, or that they don't have any college degree at all? Or might not even have a high school diploma or any degree for that matter. Lol. The public would go crazy if they found out an uneducated person was in control of the plane. And that seems to be who the airlines are hiring now days. High school drop outs and people with no degrees. That would be a far bigger issue.

AAWO have a contractual flow where they have to take every pilot into AA regardless of thier history.