Using the best projections and most optimistic view I still don't think future hiring can be considered a "boom" or "bonanza". One to two thousand new hires a year after a decade of furloughs and setbacks hardly makes a dent in the growing pile of unemployed or underemployed pilots that are out there.

The FAA only keeps track of pilots that still have a medical. There are easily tens of thousands of highly experienced pilots who are driving a trash truck right now who are of working age and are waiting for salvation.

Lets all just hope that there isn't a big oil crisis out there waiting to give us the knock out blow.

Skyhigh