The fact that Stobart have already started flying a couple of EMB's (or are about to) for CFE could be described as interesting.
Could it? In what way?
Stobart pick-up Flybe for a snip (much cheaper than last time they tried), operate as BA under a franchise agreement having cherry-picked the routes that will work, as many have already suggested.
Even if the above happens, likely to be bad news for even the larger bases and for or Exeter in general :-(
I fly with BEE quite a bit and the people are great - sad to see this happening.