QF can move costs around at will. It can justify 6 weeks leave a year per pilot as an expense. 6 weeks leave is cheaper than making guys CR and then the churn in training to backfill in the future. 1 seat change is 4-6 seat changes & 2-3 years of paying a pilots to be non productive.
When a suitable time presents, it’ll write the costs off. For instance it could hold the cost of the fleet higher and use that gap for wages, then write the fleet off at a later date.
The staff will be stood down until required. Natural attrition will sort out the numbers through retirements and medical retirements. I don’t even think there will be VR packages.