When someone passes on a rumour in good faith, one would expect that person to respond when others point out the unlikelihood of the story.
In this case anyone with even a nodding acquaintance of the economy and population spread of the south west of England would realise that the idea of 3/4s of easy's BRS pax coming from the far south west a complete non starter. And how would EXT suddenly cope with another million annual pax plus their own expected half a millon or so this year following Flybe's new routes?
I could come on here and say I had heard that Flybe had been bought by Bill Gates who was then going to make a 'too good to refuse' bid for easyJet and operate all the new combined airline's flights out of Newquay. Where do we draw the line?