Sure those things matter, and likely the more aggressive you are with your scheduling , the more delays of one kind or another are going to impact.
But how can you say pilot costs have no impact on the bottom line ?
If on average the pilots at QF are overpaid $100k each , well that is a $200 million liability on your bottom line.
If you have 400 more pilots than you need , that is probably an excess of cost of another 70/80 million.
Well I have to go now because I'm going out to drink some wine with a very pretty young lady.