deltapapa
The simple truth is....
It's not crying wolf - they are in serious danger of going under!!!
They have issued redunancy notices to the staff as they are legally required to do so, & it's not the first time they have had to do this.
You write it as if these redundancy notices are a new thing, but this is about the third/fourth time Dr P has made the statements that he will ground the aircraft and make the team redundant if we do not provide the required amount by whatever deadline and actually issued the notices the month before said deadline, so crying wolf is a good analogy for a lot of people.
You have to feel sorry for the engineers though who really do work their fingers to the bone and most for very little except their love for the aircraft and the determination to prove that British enginering is still the best in the world. Hopefull to provide the population with an iconic aircraft that should be flying and not thrown o the scrapheap with the rest of our engineering heritage, but with management like they have got it must feel like they are just wasting their time on a thankless and stressfull journey. good luck to them for theit futures anyway.