Well I guess it is easy to work out then.
Roughly speaking the company has been receiving around 30 aircrafts a year for the past 2 to 4 years.
So when 30 airframes represented a 100% growth in terms of size, in 07, it the equivalent of 30%. Therefore 08 is growth will be....
LHS positions are directly proportional to this physical expansion
plus like you said the variables known/unkown including people leaving the Company.
Clear as mud I know but the fact is we need LHS guys in great numbers due to our size but not so much in terms of proportion.
Sooooo nobody knows how long it is going to take you. On my fleet it seems to take about a year from DOJ to LHS Line check.