If Flybe is about to get rebranded anyway, what is the point for Virgin/Flybe to keep it going as a flying concern with all the related millstones around their heads? Wouldn't it make more sense for them to take on what is useful under, say, the Stobart flag? Virgin has a functioninig brand, distribution and marketing in place, Stobart a functioning regional airline. So taking over assets rather than the whole lot might be more attractive?