CurtainTwitcher, good post!
With the recent grounding of 8 A380 aircraft, the number of Qantas aircraft now grounded has grown to 32(?).
What are the odds on Qantas actually ordering new aircraft, especially A350s for Sunrise? Long thin routes like Sunrise only work on the thinnest of margins. In the present environment Qantas is trying to preserve capital by grounding aircraft, not buying more.
With no A350s on order by Qantas for some indefinite time to come, that event would seem to make a YES vote completely redundant, would it not?
I say again, what are the odds?