MVE,
As you seem to want to make this personal the first thing I would say is that you can suggest all you want, but whoever you are and whatever your experience your suggestion that I need to qualify my comments is just arrogant twaddle. Reading your post I would be inclined to think that you are a flybe management pilot or at least a flybe management wannabbee. It reads like something the tp fleet manager might write.
Anyway, I will give you the benefit of my "experience" as you sarcastly put it, which consists of eight years (so far) flying for Flybe and thirteen years working for other companies prior to that (obviously no where near your experience, I admit) and say that I cannot suggest another company that will do all those things for a low hour wannabbee. However, there is no reason that I should do, as in none of my posts have I said that Flybe is not a good place for a low houred pilot.
All I have done is to give a picture of the working conditions as I have found them, not being based in Exeter, and said that in a specific case of an experienced pilot who could get a direct entry command at either company they would be better off at Ryanair.
So why not give us the benefit of your own experience, especially of Flybe where you have obviously been for much longer than I as you know so much more about it, and prove how £52k working 5 on 2 off starting on earlies and finishing on lates is better than earning £70k plus sector pay with a 5 on 4 off fixed roster pattern, assuming there are no basing issues (as perhaps might soon be the case in BHD if the rumours about a Ryan air base are true).
You are right, also, that there is nothing surprising about pilots leaving in the winter, what however you should be worried about is how many. If you had bothered to read that part of my post you would see that I qualified it with "prior to the Bacon merger" so it might well be outdated. However whilst I will not quote names the figures were given to me by a member of the Balpa cc who might well have known what he was talking about, although you would probably say he was deliberately spreading anti company gossip. The thing you should also be worried about is how you are going to retain turboprop captains, now that the jet pay for tp trainers and the large number of Q400s compared to a small number of E195s means there is no real career progression. Although, as it appears from your post that you joined as a DEC you probably feel that isn't a problem.
Anyway, just to reiterate - I have nothing against Flybe and have enjoyed working for them, and agree with you that it isn't a bad place for low houred pilots. In my opinion, however, I think there are other companies where experienced captains could be better off. I also believe that potential recruits should get a chance to have an idea of what the company is really like to work for.
Finally, the ops admin white board thing - I didn't "hear about it", and "someone" didn't tell me about it, and I didn't "make it up and think it might be true" - I saw it last December when I was in the office in EXT, as indeed you must have done if you were also there.