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Originally Posted by jcountry
I think there is more to it than that.
I think mgmt took a look around and saw that a bunch of new hires could be upgrading within a relatively short time (hopefully) if all those retirements kick in.
Maybe they want experience. Maybe that will turn out to be a smart move. These guys have well over a decade in the left seat on average (I would think.) There is no substitute for that kind of thing.
Experience is always good.
Hahaha you think management put any thought into this. They fill seats with meat, doesn't matter the "experience" as long as it meets the minimum level. If AA did not have huge flow through agreements and a massive amount of furloughs coming back, management would be "'looking'" around" and.....hiring all those pesky regional inexperienced CA's to fill classes.
And that "experience" you speak of...how do you quantify that? You assume older means more? I know pilots who've flown for 30 years and have never seen an engine failure, loss of pressurization, flight control issue and so on. They've never instructed, been check airmen, nothing. Yet I've met junior regional FO's who've seen multiple failure, and regional CA's who've been check airman for years. Experience IS RELATIVE TO YOUR OWN EXPERIENCES!!!!!! You assume a flow through is better cause their older and will be a better CA...really? Or a furlough will be more experienced...how? When I see a flow, I see a lot of bitterness towards AA if they came from Eagle. I see a pilot who did not move onto another place and just accept an uncontrolled fate from AA.