It is believed that they meter flow from their contracting regional carriers. They are more likely to take people from regionals that don't fly for the major you are applying to.

Can't get to SNF this year sadly. As the two commenters above have said the problem is that when majors go to hire they dont want to eat their own feeds and since Skywest and Republic both work for multiple airlines that means you have less of a chance of getting hired from there to a major.

I know several people from the free agent regionals who have been hired by Legacies, the same ones they support. You just need a competitive resume and a competitive resume is quickly becoming having some TPIC again.

All this speculation about who hires whom, and where, is little more than. Hiring at a frenzied pace matched the contour of the temporary post-covid bubble, and has re-bounded to a more natural pace.

Don't get wrapped around the axle with pathways. Legacy carriers really don't care which regional it was, for which you flew. They do care about your PIC experience with that regional and a clean FAA and employment record.

If you think legacy carriers (et al) care much about the path you came through in your early flying, you're mistaken. If you think you're anything more than a dime-a-dozen applicant, you're also mistaken. Flush the notion of shortcuts to the top, put in the work and the years, and apply. You'll be hired, when you're hired. The rest is mental machination.

I can't speak for all the regionals, but AA has made a point to NOT hire from their wholly owned outside of the flow. So it DOES in fact matter if you are at one of those. As for contract regionals, it probably doesn't matter that they fly for a given legacy.

Irrelevant. American owns and has flows, and does hire through the flow. One is not concerned about blocking one's chances of moving to American, if within that pipeline. If one is in that pipeline and elects to appy elsewhere, that applicant is not limited. Ergo, it makes no difference which regional one goes to, so far as looking at a legacy (etc).

The legacy is concerned with your experience. Make captain, gain PIC experience, apply. Rinse, repeat. Plan on a slow road. Reality has returned.

The legacies don't want to rob pilots from their own regional feed if their regionals are understaffed.

It's irrelevant if there's a flow.

For you, it's entirely irrelevant: right now you need to quit making excuses, and go get a job.

No, it's not irrelevant because they can meter their flow to almost nothing if they feel they need to. And I've been working on getting a better job for a few months now with no takers.

You've supplied a constant stream of reasons why you won't take a single suggestion or direction given you. Lots of excuses that range the gamut from your inability to live on the wages paid, to your refusal to shave your face for fear that your employer might divine that you're in search of employment (despite your assertion that you're presently doing "the same job as netjets," though you also assert that your position is not upgradeable).

Posters have ceased bothering to give you direction, as it's well established that you'll reject it out of hand.