Heard from a CLCP a few days ago that Delta is planning to slow hiring from 900+/year (the last two years) to 700+/year in 2016.

If you're in the pool, keep your head up. It's going to be worth the wait. 2022 will be the year with largest group of mandatory pilot retirements in history.

Also, some other notes:

- E190 will be west coast to move some 717s back east
- 14 757s slated for retirement are going into mod/heavy mx, so we can expect them to stay for at least 5 more years
- Domestic 767s are slated to retire by 2018 (~17, I think...)