Well said TheStigEA10!
Your post has sure shaken many of the management moles out of the tree (as if there was any doubt about Qantas management directly interfering and posing in these Forums)!
We need more investigative posts like yours to uncover the strategy and likely effects of the management's "Cunning Plan".
Surely someone can find out the future fleet types purchase and sale plan? Everything hinges on that and is the reason for the structure of the offer.
FWIW I see a blatant money grab from the pilots which is lined with lots of broken glass and barbed wire. And all is being disguised as a "Project Somewhere over the Rainbow" plan.
This EA has far more reaching consequences then many realize.