My reading of the EBA is that the company can do what ever they want according the the effected ranks and bases I.e if the aircraft comes out of MEL then they could force the appropriate amount of CAPT, FO and SO’s back to the Bus where ever there are vacancies (could be a different base) or give the choice of redundancy if that isn’t acceptable to the effected pilots. So you will have 787 pilots in other bases who are more junior but will stay on the 787, obviously they will all end up back on the bus at some stage. It could involve downgrades as well, just depends how management choose to go about it, it could all be done in a respectful and co-operative way or they may ‘make an example and sound song and dance’ about it as per their threats.