Taking into account all factors, including the imminent delivery of new aircraft, the natural movement of crew through retirement, promotion, moving over to AO etc, are retrenchments really likely?
Certainly the need to plateau recruitment for the time being is there, however (the above factors considered, not to mention the inevitable fading of the SARS problem) would there be enough flight crew in 6 months time, assuming the current recruitment freeze were to last for that long?