I predict more 900s in some form wether its the Freedom 900s or NWA options. This is too large of a scale for increased utilization on our current fleet. A buddy of mine does interviews and I guess they are scrambling XJ pilots to do last minute interviews this week and next, which means the pool must have gotten drained for the 35 vacancies.

The saab backfill is easy to explain. All the new 900 Captains have to come from somewhere and it is likely from the saab CA ranks. When that happens, the saab CA positions have to be backfilled and that likely comes from both saab and jet FOs and when that happens those positions need to be backfilled as well.

Something is going on and I guess we'll find out soon enough.