Early in April our CEO stated that hiring would continue for "the next few months." There were 4 classes in April (3 ERJ 1 CRJ) and those have already been filled. I haven't seen or heard anyone talking about having a May class date, although I'd assume that they're out there.

Officially, the company seems to be taking it month by month (based on what they're telling us). Our monthly attrition data on the ERJ side as of early April shows that 44 pilots have left the ERJ side in 2012 (half of those are CA's), and only 14 have left the CRJ side (only 3 of those are CA's) So, on the ERJ side we're losing about 15 a month, and on the CRJ side about 5 a month. I would assume based on attrition alone we would need to continue hiring to keep up throughout the rest of the year...that's just my uneducated, hopeful guess though. If we keep losing pilots at this rate on the ERJ side, that would mean we'd lose at least 175 this year (assuming about 15-20 leaving each month)....