The rumors seem to range from nearly 500 next year on the high side, to 120 on the low side. The answer is usually somewhere in the middle.

The DTW council newsletter mentioned 60 per month until the summer, then reducing/stopping for the summer (thus the high side number.) One would think they got this number from Crew Resources, but sometimes things get lost in translation.

Obviously things can change. If we get more airplanes, or things get tight this summer, (we are very thin in a number of categories, IMHO,) the numbers will likely go up. If we decide we need to reduce capacity (again) due to the economy or whatever, the number goes down, (or hiring gets pushed back – again.)