I understand your frustraion laserman. I think part of it stems from a lack of understanding of the fractional world. Unlike other airlines, fractionals have no mandatory retirement age. Consequently, there is no accurate way to predict retirements and no way to determine how many pilots will be needed at a future date. Add in the bad economy and poor 401K results, and few if any pilots are voluntarily walking away, would you? Adding planes and retiring pilots are the only way to add guys to the fold. Right now NJA is buying planes, but deliveries are delayed (1+ year for the 4000) and even then, that doesn't allow for much addition. Finally, NJA just radically changed the way they handle hiring. Like any change, there are speed bumps and disatisfactions associated with it. In time these will flatten out / go away and we can go back to complaining that we don't get enough pay and work too much. BTW: Change, uncertainty and the unknown are the daily companions of any frac pilots life.