This is very important to understand. And a well placed source I have in Kopaka tells me that the 1000 number is a VERY rosy number trumped by light ops for moral... that the higher ups see a far smaller number based on replacing lots of Inter Island block hours with 321, and faster 767 retirements.

Anyone who's been flying longer than a few years should ALWAYS know that projections usually fall well short. I'd argue with as young many of our captains are, and as young as many senior FO's are... if you're bottom 10-20% of this list, you're an FO for 15, maybe more years..