Albie,

Are you sure about this?

As far as the MD is concerned, all the MEM FOs I know on reserve are getting worked much closer to RLG. The company made a shift in the MEM MD FO bid pack about 3 months ago practically halfing the reserve lines. I think we had roughly 90 in Apr for over 600 FOs. Word I have heard is the flying is being spread around with accepted minimal buy up to prevent reserves from sitting and not being flown. This is supposition as I don't have access to actual RLG utilization numbers. Any shortage in reserve manning is being solved with draft

I believe the Md is much thinner than is being advertised (at least at current fleet level) and for this reason I'll be surprised if there is more than a -1 excess in MEM FO

I would not be at all surprised if there was a SMALL amount of hiring in the summer to round out the 757 manning.

I could be wrong, but hopefully am right