True there were problems with the cabin crew integration but the pilots had no real problem mainly because, apart from Manchester and Birmingham (BRAL covered some BA flying there), there was no base where both sets of crew were present and initially very few moved bases until our esteemed management started closing bases round the network
French has already said he's going to get rid of the aircraft but some of the routes such as Frankfurt, CDG and Berlin are mature and have a ready-made market. Think of all those business men's email address' you now have access to - "Dear Sir, why not take advantage of the cheaper fares that the new FlyBE is able to offer you on this route, with it's newly updated aircraft"
It's also not costing him anything to gain access to these markets or crew (thing £1 has been mentioned), so training them is no more expensive than getting a pilot off the street, and we'll all benefit if we get anything close to BACon's scheduling agreement. Before anybody comments - no this wasn't the reason for the company's downfall, inefficient use of the crew was what lead to the high costs related to disruption and day-off payments.
There are going to be some winners and some losers in this merger/takeover, what ever you want to call it, but we've been through this before and both parts of the company benefited from it. To hear some people talk, you'd imagine it was the pilots that lead to the downfall of BACon, well we don't get paid anymore than our competitors!