8000 is 12% of the Summer head count, more like 15% of the current Winter one. There is at the minute no plans to reduce pilot headcount however I personally am expecting it as we took on 100+ purely for this Summer which won’t be needed.
No body knows at the minute though as the airlines react to the needs of the holiday side of the business and they haven’t decided about future schedules yet. We may get away with no redundancies if Winter sun goes crazy... who knows
This by the way is just my opinion, I don’t have any insider knowledge.