Yes Bacon fly Dash. All 7 of them. With reasonably fast career progression onto one of the (41 jets in total) jet fleets (very few Dash FO's do more than eighteen months, max two years on props before getting a jet position). And even the Dash skippers have a career expectation of getting a jet command in a reasonable time frame.
What Flybe offers is (by start of 2010, if things go to plan) the prospect of 54 props and 15 jets (if the latter ever get delivered?) and virtually zero career expectation of moving from prop to jet. Largely dead mans shoes - some of us have seen this situation before when BRAL/Manx had lots of props and just a few jets.
Flybe also offers the expectation of not having stable rosters (I have talked to some of the recent rashers that came to Flybe from SOU - they cannot make any lifestyle plans and they are already well hacked off by the endless roster disruption). Bacon has up to now offered good lifestyle protection with our scheduling agreement (and no, that is not the reason for Bacon losing money).
What Ghengis and Hudson Bay say above is largely correct - the only people who will come across are those who have thus far failed to find alternative employment, else have personal base issues. And as Hudson said money is not the solution - lifestyle is worth far more - and the hard evidence at present is that JF has failed to realise this.
PS Shagtastic - I think you have misinterpreted what Ghengis said. I don't think he is talking about existing Flybe pilots - more the fact that (excepting those with personal basing issues) only those Bacon pilots who have been unable to find alternative employment will be left to join Flybe. Perhaps the lesser able, or perhaps the lesser able to get through interviews (there is a difference!).