It wouldn't have been painless had Caribbean Airlines bought them either.
When BWIA was shut down and morphed into CAL, they shrank the airline too much, got rid of too many pilots and when they tried to expand, found that most of those pilots had moved on.
But hopefully they would have learned some lessons along the way and might have handled it differently.
I still feel that an ATTEMPT should have been made, once and for all, to have a regional airline but as Panama Jack said earlier....
"I am sure that a number of groups are happy that Caribbean Airlines wasn't the successful bidder."
Island politics.............................
