Yeah I was starting to think about that. Less than 200 hired from 2000-2006 yet they hired 700-800 FO's last year. One would think that the newest Captain should have been an '06 hire if they were loosing Captains. This must be FO's leaving for other Majors that hire high hour FO's.

However it's not too bad if you got in early during the hiring of 2007. However those FO's won't be leaving anytime soon, so they will have good FO schedule's but later hires of 2007 will be stuck with a terrible schedule until the captains leave or 5 years later when these FO's get sick of it and leave themselves.