Hahaha, royal family you make me chuckle.
Yes, BMED people are leaving in bus loads, droves, lorry loads and any other term you can think of.
You really need to think whether you want to work for a company that is causing this. These are cabin crew that have happily flown for BMED for up to 10 or more years some of them. A lot of these people left short haul or charter airlines so it is not a problem of doing the short flights. However when you are not being given an trips (as were promised) and all the original BMI staff are getting all the trips, the managers are screaming and shouting at crew in the crew room, treating the crew like children, making them work to min rest every day for 5 days on, not paying you the correct money you tend not to feel to great about your job. I was on an airport standby the other day and 6 other people on the same standby handed in their notice the other day. People are quitting without jobs to go to as it is that bad. It seems like BMI are intent on pushing out all the BMED staff. There are people regulaly in tears and having break downs on the bus!