The management have always been in the bootboy cum barrowboy mould & of late have excelled!. for some at least running the department in question is too great an intellectual challenge and they are begining to line up scape goats.
Manpower decisions have been based on one mans 'supposedly' superior big airline experience. When the numbers are crunched on the Man base there is a large number in the debit column. The amount of personnel involved would be more akin to the extras for the Ben Hur crowd scenes! Purely by chance an extra two layers of management have been slipped in.
So all in all another triumph for the engineering management.