I think various points are being made.
a. The comparitively low hours required ie. the 3000 to maybe include the 500 on type.
b. Many poeople already at easy with in excess of these requirements, but being held back for whatever reasons, but will welcome outsiders who appear with no track record or history.
c. The choice of venue, curiously chosen to be convenient to My Travel, Airtours etc Bus drivers.
All the above measures designed after all to put bums on seats, presumably to replace the recent resignations from both seats, with trails left pointing to Now, Dragonair etc.
PS The "alledged emails" are fact, not fiction. A mate received 8 identical ones. They cannot even manage to send email correctly!