OTOH, there is hardly any other airline left in the UK that could take over such routes. Flybe itself on life support and Eastern apparently also not in great shape. The rest are niche/fringe operators such as Aurigny, Blue Islands, Skybus not suited for that type of expansion. And to be honest, I am not sure if Loganair is currently executing a smart strategy by expanding and taking on Embraer 135s....
In other news, just stumbled across a horrible piece of journalism in the Daily Mail that mentioned "low cost airline Flybmi" and showed deserted check-in desks at the airline's EMA base....