A few weeks ago The Prince of Darkness echoed the same plan.
EBA sign off is the last hurdle as the other two (International profitable and pay down of $1B in debt) appear to be over the line if things continue as they appear they will.
According to him, the plan is for 7 aircraft arriving 2017 and these will be the first of many more over subsequent years.
This also agrees with what AJ said when I quizzed him on why the EBA could possibly be the make or break as to whether or not the 789s would be bought. His response was that the bean counters hate variables. At the moment, the pilot pay is a variable that can't be neatly accounted for on a spreadsheet. Once this is known, regardless of what the figure is, then the nice neat spreadsheet can be presented to the board.