The flow is dependant upon AA retirements, resignations, and what small growth may be planned.

That flow creates CA vacancies. Once word is out that it is happening exactly as they said it would; watch how fast the classes fill up. AAG will just recycle them all again. The smart ones will get in first.

 

ding ding ding....

 

Spanking ?

Well, ANNOUNCEMENTS aren't spankings, my misguided friend.

Even WITH a bombshell announcement occurring which you imply as imminent, unless you can fuel your engine with 50 pilots of high-octane new-hires (that complete training and STAY to make the AA flow work all the way to your exhaust pipe) each and every month, your car just conks out and drifts to the sputtering to the shoulder of the road....and that spanking will take many, many months, so I'm not going anywhere too soon.

Again, I understand motivations you may have for finding a bunch of pilots to risk being the ones simply being tasked to push your vehicle far enough down the road to get YOU where you need to be, but that might not be the best plan for those who push and I've seen nothing but inflated hard-sell sales pitches from not only Wilson, but even more so, you.

 

Yes, I'm slumped over in depression.

But Hey !

At least I'm not delusional, nor in denial.

 

Remember Dueling Banjos in the movie Deliverance ?

Now, you've got dueling managements all jockying for the best sales pitch to staff THEIR AA regional airline, that's all. Promises and optimistic projections are easy to make, don't cost a dime and have no downside. In fact, this EXACT approach has been used before at Eagle/Envoy to lead and lure dopey pilots and so, if you've got little else to work with (Hashimoto's BIG moves came up empty), it's worth a shot !

Can't blame them at all, really. I mean just look how some have not only taken the bait, but are shopping it around to others as a full time job on multiple forums.

 

Envoy will be here long after many others have failed, only to have their pilots recycled at the surviving carriers. Sorry to burst your bubble; but it's the Silvers, Mesa's, TSA's, and Gojets of the world that will become staffing fodder. Look at CommutAir, down to properly staffing just 13 planes. The smart ones will make the move to a WO before the consolidations ever even begin. The two best currently are PDT and ENY

The regional industry will continue shrinking. To avoid being recycled, a pilot needs to pick carefully. It's much easier to hunt for a mainline career when you aren't contstantly having to worry about yours going out of business or being bought as staffing fodder. Envoy is the smart move right now; they'll be getting in ahead of the rush.

 

I'm waiting for the string in your back to snap from over use.

 

I'm waiting for your mom to make you mow the lawn

 

Yours is still going strong, even after being coated in layers of fertilizer.

 

To a certain degree, this IS true. There's just one little problem though. As of now and even more so in the near and distant future, there are VERY, VERY few true "new-hires". The pilots Envoy needs just wont be there, especially if Delta and United slap back to any cradle-to-grave scheme AA might announce in the future.

It's simply all hopeful promises and projections. Sure, AA might have X retirements, but that DOES NOT automatically mean all present Envoy pilots will be there in 6 years. The salesman wants you to believe 1+1=6 and that's simply fuzzy math at this point.