I gather that all the admin and other duties that the soon to be defunct Senior Pilots did, will be done by a non flying Base Manager.
That'll be interesting when the new pilots asks for help in understanding the a/c Performance Graphs and other aviation based problems
I understand that the Base managers will farm different bits out to each pilot/crewman and not actually do it themselves.
So some senior pilot responsibilities will remain with the 'old' senior pilot, but he won't be paid or recognised as such.
Sweet deal.