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company for not promoting AA pilots in senior management jobs. I’ve also heard that for a
while there, AA pilots were perhaps more danger of being fired if something went wrong,
though now most airlines seem to have gone to the once we have you, we’ll provide you with
the amount of training that you need to succeed. We did have an African American Chief Pilot
and VP of Operations, Alaska Airlines Captain Mike Swanigan. (At one time he was a C-130 pilot
with the Alaska Air National Guard!).
My impression is that in the military it is also hard to get in and make it through training. But I
have seen examples of AA’s making it to senior leadership positions (AMC/CC, TRANSCOM/CC,
WG/CC, OG/CC) more frequently than at the airlines.
