AA is hiring a substantial number of Spirit pilots. Received an email from the Union to vote on potential new members. 67 pilots to vote on and 20 are from Spirit. 14 are flow through. That's pretty good.

Please bring some of those great work rules you have. I have flown with a couple Spirit pilots over the last few years. Always a pleasure. Hopefully our hiring continues at its rapid pace.

I wish you the very best.

And only three that are from a Regional that is not a WO. Ooof, we are back to that again.

Well when you have the ability to hire Airbus captains with 10,000 hours and 7000 hours of 121 PiC, those applicants get calls over regional pilots with less experience. The Spirit CA exodus will level off at some point (assuming no liquidation) and I’m assuming non wholly owned regionals will get more of a look, as will NK FOs with lower time at Spirit, who have not been getting many calls for AA.

Oh those poor non union SkyWest guys. My heart bleeds for them. All the instructors I know at several airlines and an air line say that they dislike the SkyWest pilots because they are arrogant and struggle in training with "but back at SkyWest we..." and get to the cockpit with 3.5 stripes.

I say good on them for hiring within the fAAmily. The WO guys bust their asses every day down in the sAAlt mines and deserve their reward. I've worked in those mines and we didn't get crap to show for it. So good on them.

Ohh, don’t get me wrong I don’t feel sorry for them one bit. Especially over those trying to leave Spirit. Plus I thought I was responding to an AA thread, wasn’t paying attention when I clicked my subscription email.

Was just commenting how it seemed reminiscent of pre-COVID where you couldn’t get hired by American unless you were flow or Mil. My Regional had less than 5 hired by AA each year after they started hiring again before COVID. We had a lot more people go to UA/DL/WN/UPS/FedEx

I thought we were on the American forum too lol.

Hell back in the day (up until about 2021) the AApplication had the Space Shuttle on it for aircraft flown. And you pretty much had to have flown it, been a Blue Angel, or win a lottery ticket as a civillian to get hired. And then you had to pass an astronaut physical. Pre covid they would have never looked at a guy like me in his mid 50s with 15000+ hours and several big jet type ratings. But here we are.

I hope we scoop up as many NK pilots as apply. Let the WOs flow and let the non WO regionals think about their career choices. Nobody should have thought the hiring wave would last forever. This is reality now.

Ah, the good ol' days.

A lot of us NK guys have CJOs at AA and are still waiting on class dates fingers crossed it’s soon

Sadly I think you might be stuck at NK for the summer, the summer hiring pause seems to be very likely.

“Brake fans on A12, left side” for one more summer, if you can’t sneak in.

Two wads made in heaven.