The DEC program is over for now. Any contract that has been offered by the company will be honored, but all assessments for DEC's have stopped. The program may start up next year for the 777 but the Boeing Fleet MGR. told me that it will be no more than 40 DEC's total for 2005. There are F/O upgrades this fall on both fleets and more to come. We are still hiring F/O's but currently at a slower rate. This also will pick up in the winter.
The only exception to all of this is for the 310. We are still hiring DEC's for the 310, which supposidly will begin arriving in December/January, but I have seen nothing official on the delivery dates. Has anyone else?