lots of crews and engineers within bmi regional adamantly believe its them that are destined to receive said aircraft after the group CEO has been singing its praises in the last few months to staff. Obviously just looking at the accounting books then and not its recent history

So the rumour goes they would keep most of the EMB and just send back the 3 or 4 leased ones and operate a mixed fleet. Think we can safely say that if its true he will have to do a rather large recruiting spree following its introduction as some will ineviteably abandon ship