Agreed. These so called "base closures" are complete rumours, that in-fact have been made to sound believable by media reports clearly actually getting their information from what someone had posted right here on PPRuNe. It's a shame that posts on a whim like that can then be taken as gospel and actually start affecting an airline and its employees at these bases. Admittedly Flybe's management should be reassuring their colleagues at this time, which for all we know actually may have done. They should however too do so to the public / passengers, as whilst they may probably know different and just brush off the rumours and negativity of their financial situation, the media is ridiculously powerful on winning peoples minds.