if no one in Southern leaves or takes the golden hand shake, that is proposed, then there will be a lot of bumping and retraining, some captains will be bumped back to FO' positions but will have to remain on captains pay, cost for moving expences for pilots relocating etc will cost a lot not to mention the bad press. It is time Qantas laid all their cards on the table and the future of the Regionals sorted out, they may even through in progression to Australian or heven forbid Mainline...
but first it might be an idea to combine the pilots from Eastern Southern Sunstate and Airconnex/impulse so as to assure no job losses...