You guys are just too close to see the bigger picture.
If you don't have any of these nasty, smelly aeroplanes then the ships will be much easier to keep clean. Also, the areas set aside for aircrew can be used as office space for the army of civil servants needed to make all the existing pilots, engineers, etc redundant.
Also, if you don't have any planes then there is no need for the ships to go anywhere and this will save a fortune in fuel!
After a year or so it can be decided they are no longer required and sold off to our allies in Pakistan for a few coppers and the whole episode quietly forgotten.