Soon or later GF will hire DEC's, it is just a matter of time and forget what was said on previous pilots meeting about no DEC.
The situation is just different now than before, with flights departing with two captains, new SO/FO's are just dropping on line and now this number of resignation that will make effect on November-December...
All transfers and upgrades are stopped until October, only few FO's are under upgrade training from the +20 that made PAC's in last June-July.
For this year we have just the next two A319's to join the fleet so this do not make too much difference on my opinion but for 2010 we will see a bigger expansion...
Hopefully we will have enough new FO's to supply the demand otherwise DEC will be required for sure.