Mi amigo is in the Horizon Pilot Development program awaiting a training date. He recently had an update phone call with his contact/recruitment person for the program and they told him that of the 20 just hired at Alaska 17 were Horizon pilots and the plan is to backfill them at Horizon entirely with Pilot Development program candidates. She also told him more hiring is expected shortly but they have been telling him that for 6 months to try and keep him from bailing to another regional I would guess. No other info was provided.