Word on the street is maybe a few hundred in 2011 but of course that depends on economics, fuel, geopolitics and many other things.

In any case stagnation in size looks far more likely than any growth, and so most hiring will come from retirements and no one is leaving right now (in any significant number).

The company may go crazy redeploying equipment in and out of existing domiciles and that might drive a little hiring for the training bubble which we already see a good bit of.

All things aside, it appears the 300ish rumor is probably about right assuming we don't lapse into a depression or suffer another significant terror event, etc. The current school of thought seems to be run as lean as possible (and we ran too lean last summer, hence the recent hiring...only the bare minimum necessary for peak season relief) and I don't see any reason that would change especially given all the uncertainty out there on so many fronts. JMHO.