egcc & virgin wanabee - show some respect for the people who have something to genuinely worry about - redundancy - get a sense of perspective and take your armchair CEO claptrap to airliners.net or somewhere else more appropriate. At bmi, Bishop is from Manchester, Kenworthy from Yorkshire and Turner went to Sheffield Uni and made his name working in Leeds - the whole idea that some sort of social "north vs south" ego trip is a driving force behind these decisions is an insult to these people involved in trying to keep airlines solvent and profitable in the most difficult of circumstances. As for what is says about your grasp of the airline business, I think we need say no more.