The 195 issue is the lease deal, it is crippling, that's a fact. The 175 lease deal isn't amazing but it's workable - just.
As for the comments about profitability and obtaining the C Series from DC3 Dave, that's not really relevant, the relevance is the lease deal because Flybe wouldn't be purchasing them, if you can get a lease deal for less than the current lease deals then it's a win/win. As for whether the 31 orders ends up at Flybe I very much doubt it. The CS100 holds 108 passengers, the Dash 8 holds 78, that's an increase in capacity of 28%, it would be commercial suicide to put that amount of seats into an already saturated market (because the fleet replacement program will be predominantly be for the Q400's) but then what do I know.