F/A hiring is due to normal attrition. No more recalls this year for pilots. We park two more airframes that timeout early next year, three more in 12'. Parker/Kirby already made it clear there will be no PDT re-fleet. PDT will continue to operate as is until loss of personnel makes operation impossible. There will be significant labor shortage issues in the coming months. Mainline mgt. does not want any new pilots hired or furloughees recalled as we would just end up furloughing again in Sept, then again in March after 906 and 907 go to the desert.

Colgan is taking back a good portion of the north flying in July/Aug to stave off our labor shortage problems.

Long story short..Piedmont Airlines is dying. Anyone who can should get out now. The mainline Board of Directors does not want TP's on the property any more. Dreams of Q400's coming if oil spikes again is pure fantasy. Dreams of a PSA merger is pure fantasy. The flight ops side of the company has maybe 3 years of life left in it. The writing is on the wall people...I suggest you read it and move on. Even the senior guys that always used to say "Piedmont always manages to survive" are changing their tunes and starting to say the end is near. Those guys are all commenting lately that things have never looked so bleak. When they were saying "we'll be fine" I leaned toward the optimistic side of things. But when guys that have been with the company since I was in diapers are telling me to get out now....well..you be the judge. The facts as they are seem to paint the end..It does to me...So my philosophy: plan for the worst and hope for the best.