As I understand discussion on this thread
QF A380’s, some QANTAS A380s will be ferried to LAX for gear swings so they can then be ferried to an MRO shop for a heavy check. If it is not done soon, the airframes will be only scrappable, no longer flyable. MRO shops have plenty of capacity, so that works together nicely.
What is not clear is whether this is because QANTAS expects to get (some of) the A380s flying again soon(-ish), or just Industrial Relations skulduggery.
Currently the QF A380 pilots are all on unpaid stand-down (they are accruing some leave benefits, though). If QF management publicly admit that some or all of the A380s are
never going to fly in QF revenue service again, then those pilots affected can legally no longer be stood down, the Reduction In Numbers clauses in their Enterprise Agreement will be triggered. As most of the A380 pilots are top of the seniority tree, such a RIN would cause a cascade of cross-fleet displacements, retraining requirements and potentially redundancy of the least-senior pilots (almost all not on the A380). That would be hugely disruptive and immensely costly. Hence QF management has a huge incentive to maintain that the A380 fleet will come back. Only they no if this is true, wishful thinking or IR chicanery.