How much savings are actually available though? CS's accounts for year ending March 2021 (available
here, page 33 is the tasty one) show that total Staff costs were £9.6m, of which £294,000 was directors pay (which can, presumably, be largely discounted).
What of the remaining £9.3m?
The guards will presumably be retained in full, anybody know what the number is?
Scotrail's back office teams will likely not have slack in their workflow to take on the full CS workload without at least some additional staff coming in. Say 50% of the backroom staff stay on.
You're looking at 66-75% of staff being kept on, presumably with the same terms, so a saving of what, £2.5m ish?
The Scotrail franchise payments to CS to keep running the service were £48m.
A total profit of £10m was reported, so an effective subsidy of £38m was paid to keep CS running last year. The potential savings are between 10 and 25% of the losses.