I'm a line pilot and I don't have any friends in management, so this is just my personal perspective. Until the results of the ongoing AE are published I don't think the company even knows when hiring and training will resume. Delta bulked up ATL when they consolidated most of the MD88s there but now it's time to pay the piper and there are significantly more surpluses than vacancies in the base. If management opts to go through with all 125 MD88 captain and 110(?) FO displacements, you're looking at 235 training events (minus any M88 captains who go back to M88 FO) plus any secondaries that result from whomever they might displace. If they follow through with this, I wouldn't be surprised if we didn't have any new classes until next year. I think management sent information to those with a CJO that they'd resume training in the fall. Somewhere there is a discontinuity. If there are mass displacements then there's no training capacity for new hires. For there to be enough surplus capacity to train new hires in the fall, management probably can't displace all the ATL pilots it has claimed it will. Again, this is just a line pilot reading the tea leaves.