A months pay for every year of service is fairly standard when making people redundant and would be much more attractive to senior pilots with 25 years in the company.
If I’m correct, the A380 flew to only six destinations from Australia:
1. Dubai
2. Dallas
For transferring onto flights operated by other airlines. EKs long haul transfer business has been devastated and the US can’t get COVID under control.
3. Singapore
4. Hong Kong
A mix of transfers, stopovers and origin/destination. Almost COVID free with travel bubbles commencing soon between countries with similar COVID rates.
5. London
6. Los Angeles
Primarily O&D, COVID situation worsening with parts of the UK going back into lockdown.
When travel bubbles start opening up, only two of the A380s destinations are likely to be on the list. SQ and CX are lucky to make three digit pax numbers on most of the flights they currently operate to Australia, and neither place is likely to be able to support an A380 without connecting traffic.
The A380 will only be considered once the rest of the fleet is being fully utilised and more aircraft are needed. Once this stage is reached the capacity offered by the type still won’t be needed but if it would be a cheaper option then the alternatives, it could return.