Just flew witha guy from the 4th deck and he said that they wanted to get the AE done in Aug but it got pushed a little bit. We are currently a little short on narrow body copilots so mgmt is considering a few options including hiring new pilots or displacing. We are short of wide body folks here in JFK, at least for the summer. Maybe LAX is overstaffed in the ER category as they are flying some NY trips. Maybe the fall schedule slowdown will normal things out. I do not see how we can support next summers flying schedule with the new 777's and 737's we are taking delivery of with the current manning. We will lose a few folks every month due to illness etc and every pilot seems critical right now. Obviously my vote is for new hires being one myself.