"Whisper" (used without permission of Capt Bob Adomi) from Flight Ops meeting said no new hire classes for Sept or Oct.

Hired 525 pilots so far in 2018.

Need another approx 260 for summer 2019 ops manning requirements

From that, my edu-macated guess would be for classes to start again in Nov, with roughly 60 noobs per month. That would put the last group of 60 starting in Feb 2019 and being on the line NLT May'ish to be full up for summer ops.

Best of luck to everyone waiting.....keep the faith...big D is a great place to work!