Hi,
Last year I setup an airlayer in August, but in October I couldn't see any evidence of roots.
I left it on until July this year. I still couldn't see roots but the sucker was just a tree and shading his mum. It had to come off.
I cut it. There were in fact two root-shoots. One was rooted while the second had only 5 roots of 1cm of length(1/3'') .
I put each one in a pot. The rooted one is fine. The jury is still out on the second one.
So the idea is, set it up now (Don't do tomorrow what you can do today) and remove it next year in April if you see evidences of roots; later if needed.