I think LFA what is happening is the media are making up inch columns with anonymous sources and half truths. Virgin always had a plan to consolidate their wide body fleet, they have already retrenched a thousand pilots and cabin crew and I think it was 750 from the office. It is all old news you can read in Aus Aviation, but never waste a good crisis, this was probably always the plan pre covid but got sped up by a few years. All the stuff I keep seeing is elements of what should/could/:might/won’t happen and what is coming out now is just a mish mash of what was and what was planned and the new reality. The sources the media keep ‘using’ are the usual half wits trying to make them selves relevant in a world where what was in the morning is not what is in the afternoon. VA in its present form can say whatever they had planned going forward, the new owner will make their decisions.