Marlowe (and somebody else who offered the same bizarre opinion),
In which world exactly is it that you think a 15% stake in any company buys any more than very marginal influence, let alone a 'controlling interest'? OK, i'm no stock market genius but I always thought a controlling interest was 51% or more?
15% buys you the right to sit quietly at the back and behave yourself!
What ever its form eventually becomes, you can be pretty sure that Jim will be running Flybe for some time yet.