Originally Posted by Roadkill

Not until the 90s and 717s and 900s are here, and DCI has been given their shiny new 100 seaters configured with 76 seats, and they've all been placed on routes and network settled out, can you then look at block hour results and say, "see, that wasn't a trick, it worked as advertised", and THEN look at the # of pilots and say the more critical, "See, the disconnect we put in of measuring block hours instead of aircraft hasn't hurt and has resulted in X # of more pilot jobs--look at all the folks we hired!"

Until all that happens, then it's just absolutely silly for you to point to a rumor of good things in the future and intimate, "you were wrong I was right".