Let this be the death knell in any future version of Flybe, the awful Q400 and any idea that the UK needs lots of regional competition. It needs regional consolidation if anything. Not teenagers squabbling over razor-thin routes and margins, PSOs, fights with mainline subsidised operations..
Flybe v2 for all the veiled 'good intentions' of the management staff who set it up, were really just a tool of the investors. The ultimate reality is that they cared very little for the employees (despite being told this was a new caring Flybe) and this is borne out in the wages, the terms and conditions, zero lifestyle protections (not that it was a problem as crews did minimal flying), legal minimum pension contribution, statutory sick pay only... the list can and does go on. & yes this was v2 - but all the good work the v1 Company Council had done in the past, all the good ideas to look after crews... it was dropped out of anything to do with v2.
They say "don't be sad that it's over, be happy that it happened" - I think in this instance, everyone involved should be sad they had a year of their life wasted.