Biggus,
Whilst I can see the logic of your comments, however they have to be balanced by the knowledge of two entire fleets being scrapped and an awfull lot of people already on gardening leave. With the best will in the world, there are redundancy ripe individuals without portfolio, and sadly sooner rather then later may be the optimal way forward.
In fact it will be a credit to the chaps at Manning if they are able to sucessfully sort this out within timeframe. Though if rushed, mistakes will be made and assets to service (good people) lost.