So all in all, old fruit, I don't see the 'shock and horror' of 11 extra Air Commodores that can be switched off in an instant (well about 12 months when you bring in their resettlement).
Don't forget it doesn't actually take much to change that tiny percentage for the worse very easily. Rumour doing the rounds in big building in London last week was 6 air cdres have PVR'd in the last few weeks! If they are some of your best, one has to ask whether they jumped before they were pushed or whether they have no faith in the future of the RAF?
The manning shortfall is even more worrying when you look at some of the other 'levers' being employed - transfer 200-ish previously aircrew annotated posts to 'any' - which of course means if you are posted in to one of them as aircrew, your "flying pay" clock starts ticking - and what about the extensions to Service to age 60 (which is causing a few more problems than had been anticipated).