Standard Pprune, the thread has drifted within 4 posts, and not in a positive way. Senior officer numbers vs aircraft numbers is an old and irrelevant equation.
the OP asks a very relevant question and this post would benefit from directly addressing it.
My opinion: even today in the papers, there are column inches dedicated to this, and that’s a long time in politics. I think it’s time for him to finally do the right thing and to go. There is no other way that the reputation is going to start improving. Beyond that, the direction to the new chief needs to be set by the new PM and I imagine that will be to fix the pipeline (of all types), and nothing more.