Apparently the 100 or so poolies plus a few will be needed to staff this years aircraft, with about 140 for next year. Course schedules are supposed to be finalised by Wednesday, with the first call/emails going out to the poolies sometime thereafter. The first of the poolies will be merged into training courses begining in March.

There may be some cherry-picking, with the CRJ/ERJ guys in the pool having to wait until later on for their call. But that is undecided at the moment.

Anyone interviewed this year will be placed in a pool, with an expected start date of later in the year or beginning of next year. Apparently, EK wants anyone in the pool to either be currently flying or at the very least have flown in the last 6 months, which is beginning to become a problem with some of the guys that have been layed off or furloughed.

That was this morning. Considering how much it's changed over the course of the last 6 months, it'll probably change again.