Laughing knife Cor V. wants bigger, fewer bases, prefers that the pilot community nightstop more and can't wait to close the smaller bases. EMA seems to have dodged the bullet this time according to galley FM.
EZY probably would have liked for the oil price to stay up there for a while, it would have knocked out a competitor or two and it would have given them the chance to force the introduction of random rostering upon us, close even more smaller bases, scrap the pay-deal, etc.
They probably want to move a couple more airframes to the € side of the channel, with the pound at its current low.
Soooo, LGW and FlyBe bought and rebranded as EZY regional? Hmmmmm. Would take an awful big bag of money. Perhaps they want to pull out of LTN and STN and concentrate the traffic in LGW but a buy out?