Could carrier-backed ABDA hold until Allied reinforcements arrive?

Could a carrier-backed ABDA Command delay Japan long enough for a British or American fleet to arrive?

No isolated answer is reliable because the scenario has already changed carrier losses, Taranto, Allied deployments, and Japanese calculations.

A simple survival time for ABDA is impossible because the carrier programme has already changed the forces reaching 1941. Courageous may avoid anti-submarine duty, Glorious may receive enough reconnaissance warning to escape Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, and more fleet carriers could then be available for Taranto. A larger strike might change the Italian fleet and the distribution of British strength between the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Far East. Japan would also evaluate a different Allied carrier threat before choosing war against Britain and the United States. This long counterfactual becomes a chain of interacting decisions rather than a single extra unit inserted into the historical campaign.