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Delta posted a memo on Friday that the hiring number is still 300 but they soon expect corporate approval to increase that number. This is the first "official" posting of this information and is a great news for all the OTS candidates.
From mikefromMT's spreadsheet, Delta needs to train roughly 40 pilots per month to deplete the Mesaba, Endeavour, and compass pools by September per Mr. Krabie's recent email (assmuing no further OTS training other than those who have already started).
Assume that happens, and the additional hiring happens, and the training rate stays at 40 per month, then 160 additional OTS poolies should start training by the end of 2014.
March class sizes should be telling.