My guess is that it will something to do with what wa mentioned last year during the LAME EBA negotiations
Notice 044/2011 - Qantas LAME Members - EA Update August 18
A breakdown of the redundancies was explained with the following impact on Engineering.* Qantas advised us that the changes take effect from April 2012 and may not all necessarily be voluntary.
20-30 in Base Maintenance Sydney due to the retirement of 4 x 747-400 aircraft.
128 LAMEs across the country due to the commencement of maintenance on demand.
40 transfers in Sydney to Base maintenance due to maintenance on demand.
Qantas were unclear on how 40 Domestic and International LAMEs would be transferred to Base considering redundancies were also occurring there.* From today’s meeting we were left under the impression that 188-198 LAMEs will be made redundant in total.
200 redundant lames is my guess for 1 component of this super secret upcoming announcement.