Check your math... looking at my seniority calculator, there are 688 retirements between today and 2016, and 1088 between today and 2017..... and those are the folks senior to me. I'm sure there's a few old dudes below me as well.

I guess I'm a little more optimistic. With the average Delta pilot not making it to age 63 (I was 10500 after the merger, 9700ish today), I believe there will consistent forward movement going forward (case in point, last two AE's I moved up, not backwards for the first time since the merger). Add in airplanes not getting retired as soon as we thought, flight time/duty time, and heave forbid we get a year or two in the next decade with some anemic growth.....