Jim French, the BE Managing Director, got some great
PR in the North East when he announced that 60 ex Gill staff would be taken on for the "new" (read former Gill) routes from NCL.
So far the plan appears to be that BE will employ some cabin crew and perhaps a few people on the gorund, but no pilots and certainly not the promised 60. Would it not have been more prudent to not mention numbers and raise hopes ? Or was it just a calculated measure to generate some goodwill and publicity ?