PSA has been funny about staffing in the past. Quite a while ago when I was in training there was a trend of sending a few home after indoc to come back in a couple weeks. After home for a bit they receive a call that they will no longer be employed. Then you have that whole fiasco where an entire class was fired for cheating on a test or whatever.. but NO.. it had nothing to do with the fact they were about to downgrade a bunch of CAs and begin a furlough for FOs.

Training mgmt back then was unconventional and a guy who used to be a police officer was in charge. His thing was to spy, interrogate, and always talk about how the "walls have eyes." That guy has since climbed into a more cushy corp job across the parking lot and more reasonable folks seem to have taken over in training. So I don't think the shady "we're just going to send you home for a couple weeks" only to become fired type of thing goes on anymore.

But my point is PSA has a history of doing what it takes and will get creative to fulfill the exact staffing model it needs for that week, month, etc. And that staffing model is to run as lean as physically possible. JB saying possibly no class until Feb may have some merit. But imagine she heard details about that over lunch. She would probably hear something completely different at the company dinner party that night.

Also, I'm under the impression that Airways mainline who owns us pretty much calls the shots on staffing and projected hiring for 2012. PSA has run into problems in the past when PSA pilots were hired at Airways mainline but mainline mgmt gave our president permission to hold not only the new hires that had recently interviewed but also hold some Jets for Jobs furloughees that were being recalled to mainline.

I'm under the impression that mainline mgmt does not want to see that history repeat itself so they gave PSA a go ahead on a projected hiring amount for 2012. Who knows though. Take it all w a grain of salt. From what I've gathered over the years, mainline confuses psa, psa corp from across the parking lot confuses psa training visa/versa, and the only info we pilots get comes from training dept folk who will tell you to take it with a grain of salt.

Also, we're seeing a temporary loss of 700 flying as they go off to get first class sections installed and some suspect this may be the reason we're suddenly seeing 19 day off a month lines. And Jan, Feb, etc. has historically shown a significant drop in flying. Just my guess, which isn't worth much, is that PSA mgmt may have not taken all that into account when they began spreading the news of 8 new hires a month beginning in 2012 if indeed that doesn't happen.