In a recent conversation with the ones that supposedly know, and I'm paraphrasing, but, if BMI Regional stopped flying and Flybe won all of the pax from all of the competing routes, then it would constitute a increase of pax of between 25% and 30%. Now that's a big difference in todays market. Surely that's got to be Flybe's primary target.
Flybe certainly don't want any more 145's, had enough trouble getting rid of the ex BACon ones!