Come on chaps, put your handbags down now. As reversethrustset said, if you don't like a certain poster then just ignore them.
Back onto topic. It's a crucial time for flybe!
I was never convinced of connects intentions when I was there. I remember reading that a big part of the plan was as a feeder for virgin and possibly other airlines too like AF/KLM and Delta. At the time when connect was formed and they took ownership of flybe the 3rd runway was well on the cards at LHR. Virgin was arguing the case that slot allocations (once the 3rd runway was completed) would have been unfairly in favour of BA. They now have a regional ability and demanded more slots at LHR when the time came.
Well whatever there intent is with flybe, as of today that 3rd runway looks a lot less likely to happen.
I wonder if this will change Virgins view on flybe?