TSA's hiring has slowed, but is still going on. You can expect that you'll need somewhat hire time to get in now than you would have last summer. (Commercial/Multi) isn't going to guarantee you a class date right now, competitive is probably in the 600/50 range.

Upgrades are slowing, but that was partially as a result of the new year, (as everyone knows, senior people don't like upgrading through the holidays) so upgrade went pretty instantly from 13 months, to 24+ months, and back to 18 months within a 3 month span. The majors slowing hiring will undoubtly slow upgrades at trans states, but don't be fooled into thinking that other regionals won't be affected as well, companies seeing large amounts of growth in the 70+ seat market will do better than most others, and i'd expect better results at the 170/75 carriers as opposed to 700/900 carriers.

The growth is very minimal at best (really, i wouldn't come here based on "growth" of a couple aircraft.) For the pilots already here, yeh, it's a welcomed addition, will give a couple extra lines, and a couple extra airframes as we get into summer, which hopefully will keep the rest of the fleet a little less stressed , but that'd be wishful thinking.