Chow and others,To the best of my knowledge we are still hiring, and we are still interviewing. The current plan is too slow this hiring process to allow attrition to help level staffing needs. As we all know staffing needs are based upon spreadsheet numbers with projected attrition. So crew forcasting planning is taking a shot in the dark. We currrently have small classes starting biweekly with a short break in February as the footprint for training is massaged. I personally think that good news is headed down the pipe but we may have to weather a storm such as a Delta merger before things begin to turn. Some people are scared of this and are cutting and running. My only thoughts on this is if all DCI carriers and other non DCI carriers do have to scale back wouldnt it be better to have 6 months in instead of 1.