Just to keep you guys hopeful. Spoke to a senior member of ryanair. This year is the first year that ryanair can't expand to its wishes. The reason you may ask? Well it's because they don't have enough pilots. Same story at Flybe, they don't have enough training time to train the pilots. Scroggs, you can confirm or deny this, but i've heard that even virgin can't get enough pilots (read experienced pilots) because all the training courses are full. The next 12 months will be like 1996-97, keep believing, and you will get there!!