The change to "Breathing and holding a pilots license" has had, at least temporarily, the desired effect and they met the recruitment target in October.
The fact they didn't for the previous 10 months, delayed necessary upgrades because they couldn't release the FOs and that a lot of the new recruits will be on an increased training profile means the first half of next year is looking virtually unworkable from a training point of view.
The new SVP flight ops is inheriting a right old mess.