Seems like only a few months ago we were fat on pilots and enjoying double digit bright green reserve levels. Now seems like we are back to a normal level (at least my base and seat). However summer is fast approaching with an increase in flying with our current routes and with the addition of new routes we are about to launch seems like we will be short staffed soon with this double whammy. Remember that summer flying starts the first week of May and we just got the May vacancy and there is hardy any new hires coming aboard and very few captains upgrading. What’s more is even if in June they didicde to hire/upgrade more for the June vacancy it takes a few months to bring new hires/CUP online and I’m sure we are going to be announcing even more routes soon with more planes coming on next quarter. Am I thinking about this too much or should I start thinking about my deal making strategies for when scheduling starts calling me off the hook?

Heard we are going to be announcing a lot of new routes out of BWI, ORD and DFW for July. Also heard next cities to be announced is SLC, BNA, CON, MEX, ICT, and STL. You heard it here first.