Anyone who thinks that the BRS closure was not discussed and agreed by both parties, well before it was announced, has a very loose grip on reality.
Similarly, anyone who thinks that flybe wouldn't have retained the base, if there was any chance at all of making money on it, is equally deluded.
Having been affected by several base closures over the years, I sympathise, but they don't do it to piss you off. It's all about economics/loads/yields/forecasts/competition, which is exactly what it should be. Crews do not have a holy right to stay employed in their local base, the industry simply does not work like that, and if it did, flybe would be making the same losses that BACON did and would last about the same length of time.
Some of you need to take your rose-tinted BA shades off...