Max Reheat
Just a wee correction to your figures - 4.5 crews x 40 aircraft = 360 pilots, not 180, so by your sums flybe need all of bacons pilots and more. There are some of our list working their notice to head off to pastures new, secondees returning to big BA, plus the pilots required to fly the 'new' RJ100 LCY operation to be taken into account, so I guess flybe will be recruiting heavily for some time to come.