Well they never announce hiring via an AE. But if we want to stop a backwards slide we need to change a lot of our work rules & some other things. Instant need for more pilots.

BTW, there have been MULTIPLE company publications stating the hiring for summer 2011 flying is done. Also, the training department is so backed up they can't do much on this next AE. I know they want to do more, but they can't. You don't announce hiring when you don't have the means to train the newhires. There is too much chance of plans changing. I for one am pleased that our management team is hiring in small chunks, rather then going full throttle only to end up overstaffed. Not to mention it's no surprise we have less pilots now then when the merger happened. We are lucky we didn't have pilots on furlough when the merger happened.

I know it's all doom & gloom in your world Nu, but I remember the arbitrated list had 12,434 pilots on it. We now have over 12,300 pilots. Considering the purpose of a PERP/PRIP program we are really aren't shrinking.