Sorry, Maude, don't understand your last. Perhaps you have me confused with another?
Wing., You will indeed find a warm welcome should you join Flybe. It's a fundamentally sound outfit with many decent folk. It's experiencing some growing pains (take that how you like ...!) but is mostly a happy place to be. There are whingers in any outfit but fewer here than in others of my experience.
As to your questions, this and the other in this forum: you'd have to agree that this would be an easy place to test opinions in the company and your questions are not phrased as if coming from a propective employee. On the subject of pay & allowances - this information is easily found: if you are a prospective employee, you will already have been filled in by Jo S. at Exeter. As to pay negotiations - if you don't work for us, it's really not your business yet, is it? It's the usual as it happens: Company Council makes a pitch, Company comes back with a much reduced offer which cannot apparently match the bid. Eventually the two will meet somewhere on the Company's side of the middle and we'll all settle down for another year.
Good luck with your application. BTW in all seriousness I would say that if it's the last penny that's most important to you, you are joining for the wrong reason.
Good luck anyway.