the best chance they had was leave CFE as was on crap pay etc and put all Euro ops on their contracts and make money, not the other way around which seems like an ego trip to the max!
******ed airline now, days limited unfortunately, at least CFE had a fighting chance against the low cost guys. horrible to say, but if there was a major incident with a low cost operator public opinion will change very fast to paying £20 more and fly with a reputable airline. it would kill low cost instantly.