What I don't understand is that Jim French openly admits to not liking Pilots. (Overpaid, Under worked and all that)
He then attempts to make the Pilot workforce look like fools by offering 90K. (When we all know that his offer does not really exist) and at the end of the day he believes he can recruit highly qualified and experienced skippers to fly his aircraft that nobody wants to fly.
Jim. I know you read pprune. Get a reality check. Your Pilot workforce has a great deal more intelligence than you could ever dream of. This profession is unique in the fact that the intelligence gradient is the opposite way to most other professions and subsequently recognises fools from a great distance.
Stop insulting, throw away your gripes and grudges and start to run Flybe like a business. If you can't, go and get a job putting out cones on the M5 and allow someone with a business mind save this regional airline from the brink of complete meltdown.