Surplus 1,
Mr. Greene is gone, replaced by Mr. Tilton a few months ago.
Announcement was made on the same day voting closed one the Economic Recovery Plan (ERPII) by the pilots.
ERP II provides for 133 RJ's in 2002, 224 in 2003, and 243 2004-2007.
I don't think the my own prospects are very good, but this is my feeling based on my experience.
The choice is, as I see it, to jump ship now or sink later.
In the 90's, I had one 727 crew where the Engineer used to be a EAL Captain and my First Officer used to be an EAL F/O and they had flown together a few times at Eastern...
True gentlemen they where, no one upsmanship by either of them towards the other.