Well Hootie,your threads seem to have filled in a little and leapfrogged over each other.It would be remiss of me not to draw your attention to this source of employment information:
http://www.airapps.com/navigationpag...ationpage.html
It should be possible to buy just a single months newsletter to give you the actual hiring numbers for each airline.Not everything they print is true but a lot of it is.