TUPE has been found to apply to:
- mergers
- sales of a businesses by sale of assets
- a change of licensee or franchisee
- the gift of a business through the execution of a will
- contracting out of services
- changing contractors
- where all or part of a sole trader's business or partnership is sold or otherwise transferred.
I'm pretty sure TUPE will apply to eastern crew already based at Chester. No doubt the devil will be in the detail.
I believe tupe would've applied to the flightline/Scasta contract, had flightline not gone bust, before the contract had been finished.