After 9/11 I was not the happiest person to talk to either. I hated seeing all the ads in flight magazines that said the airlines were hiring. They just leave the same ads in there for months at a time. In fact it is still like that now. I wasn't thrilled when we went into Iraq in 2003 as it slowed everything down in the industry.

It is amazing when hiring does open up just how wide open it gets and how fast. I think when Continental began hiring in 2005 for the first time after 2001 the initial hires were possibly going to see the left seat within 3 years. Not sure how many got that or kept it, but the speed of that is pretty wild.