Quite correct, Deep Knight. The Sunday Times has had it in for Airtours ever since it refused to give their travel people free holidays! Airtours is now part of TCX and this vendetta has moved with the merger. Didn't Thomson also once belong to the same owners as the ST too?
Paranoid? No - I just don't believe the wilder rants from any of the financials - after all, good news rarely sells newspapers. Incidentally, I would call financial backing to 2015 good news these days, whatever the cost.
For those wanting a free TR, at least two pilots have been taken on at short notice and are now on a B757 ground school course, paid for by TCX. Hope for all perhaps. (but not this year).