I think Flybe have been throwing in slot applications at all sorts of places to cover the real intent of the Gatwick expansion. Amsterdam, Paris, Brussels - you name it, they applied for slots there for next summer for a four-times daily service from Gatwick with a 195!
Real plan is to take over the BA domestics (except for Jersey) but nothing said publicly about that yet, and supposed to be hush-hush. However you'd have thought that BA wouldn't make it quite so obvious that they were giving up on the domestics. Their on-line timetable for Summer 2009 shows Gatwick-Edinburgh with four flights a day leaving at 0910, 1215, 1855 and 2045 and ex Edinburgh at 0615, 1115, 1415 and 2100! Just great for the south-east business market. Great.