Heard this the other day.....
With the delivery of the new Dash's taking place over the next however many years, if NO-ONE leaves the company, we need to take on 10 pilots per month.....
I'm afraid to say that the training manager did say that to me. I'd found out the day before that I was on an a/c with speed tapes. Phoned crewing to tell them I wouldn't be happy because I hadn't had sufficient training. They seemed happy enough and said they'd get it covered. 5 mins later I get a call from the TM who seemed pi**ed off with me and blarbed a load of 'it's legal' at me.
OPS were actually phoning all crew a while back to try and update their records as to who had done the training and who hadn't. So much for our 'amazing' AIMS system!!