Frankly, I hope the whole thing falls through. The last thing I want is to find myself again in a Co with more routes that it can service, more aircraft than it can crew and utter chaos at HQ. Flybe is just emerging from the trauma of the last 4 years and its people (wherever they come from or wherever they work) do not need this uncertainty. Whoever thought this due diligence could be sorted out and the whole thing finalised inside the original time scale needs a reality check.
Good luck to the Bacons who are looking elsewhere.