I have just flown with a training captain who told us how the company are going to break any strike, he was confident that the information was correct as it had apparently come from the new crewing manager.
And galley FM re-tunes again...
A friend of a friend of my sister's cleaner swears she saw Elvis on the bus.
I'd say the chance of using office-based staff to crew flights is extremely unlikely. Firstly, they aren't about to do anything which would raise an eyebrow at the CAA while the union can jump all over them; and secondly, office based staff have jobs to do too, and even minimum training is going to take them away from functions that keep the airline ticking. If they weren't needed in the office, why are they being employed?
A more realistic scenario is that during strike action, Virgin will pay bonuses to non-strikers who are prepared to cover on their days off. This may be the 'strike breaker' payments that the union is bandying about.