Coop, dude, I luv ya but there ain't no way we are gonna dry off this year. That's just my take on the previously announced "no new classes" release. I didn't buy it last year when they stopped hiring, but then they actually didn't hire anymore and I was crushed (the old bottom of the roller coaster, kinda like now).
So I'm just mentally prepared to wait until February.
Besides, we are getting a new puppy next month and my wife would KILL me if I picked then to take a trip to DAL....
In the meantime, try to think of some positives.
Like for me, first year pay (before 9/04) is a slight pay cut, but after 9/04 first year pay is a raise. So the longer we wait, the less number of months I live with less $$. Also, the sooner we get hired, the longer we spend in OAK. So the floodgates open in the spring and there's a slight slight chance we might bypass it altogether. And, we'll be able to brag to all our FO's in ten years, "Back in my day, I was in the pool for two years uphill through the snow both ways...."
Anyway, I hope you are right and I'm wrong, and if so I'm buying in the promised land. If not, there's only 138 days, 9 hours, and 26 minutes until 8:00 AM on Feb 16th (maybe the 2nd class will be then?) but who's counting?