There will be more AE's at Delta and there will be some backfilling. Delta is bound by a manning formula on how they have to staff each category. If a pilot bids out of a category and that would put that category below the manning formula then he has to be replaced. Delta had to pay out a big chunk of cash earlier this year because they had left some categories below the manning formula. The backfilling may not be on the same bid. Delta quite often posts a clean up bid a month or two after a large bid to get the categories in the right balance. The 777's coming in the fall will start being filled on the 9 May bid. There should be one or two more bids with 777 time. I suspect the MD-88 Category will be reduced in size and most of the parked aircraft will be mad dogs. That will free up pilots to fill the holes created as pilots go to the 777.