False Capture. What the company may be able to do legally is one question. What it will take to retain over fifty percent of BACON pilots who, to a man, are considering their career options elsewhere is another thing.
It may technically be a take over, but from where I am sitting, Flybe is just doubling its size. It is not a case of just tucking a small group of planes and pilots into the company. It is a huge root and branch expansion.
The project is dead in the water if it is approached on the basis that we will take any crap and be glad of it. If the attitude "To the Victor the spoils" prevails I am quite certain that we will all be out of here.