Well at least on the rumour buster it is clear now that we will not be getting another increase for this year. Thanks to the airbus fleet manager for the clarification, for those of you that still had any dought about if it was coming or not. It is to bad because it stops all the good rumours about when the increase would come. The last one that made me laugh, was the one about the 20% on the 25th for the 20 years of the airline. It is just too bad because it was realy funny actualy seing grown up men believing in Santa Claus... The other thing that has also been cleared to the trainers at least is the fact that they will not upgrade 140+ guys on the airbus fleet between now and end of 2006, but instead around 75 guys. (Even on the crew portal it says clearly that the 140+ can change for operational reasons...) The request for fleet transfers on to the boeing fleet that we captains got, in imho, is just a cover up ploy to say to the fo's "that hey we asked internaly for help, but your airbus captains did not want to help out so we are going to hire DECs. Not our fault, blame your airbus captains," like I would volunteer to go fly even further and for more days away than what I do now.... Nobody is going to go back to the 777 not even the guys who came over from it, as their lifestyle is much better on the airbus fleet. Just wait and see an advert in flight in the next couple of months for more DECs, and maybe they will pay them more than what we get as it makes sense... Another management achievement for your list flybystring...