With 9000 employees, an initial 7% cut in capacity is not so very far below the 1000 originally mentioned and is in-line with numbers mentioned elsewhere.
What is scaremongering in the talk of massive numbers of redundancies.
Natural wastage will not be very far from 7% p.a.
Factor in the number of crew down reported, and VS may have staff numbers to match requirements within the year.
In the current climate a temporary problem is better than many would expect.