OK, so maybe it is not going ahead in the way anticipated, but failing that what are the options, because it occurs to me - and I'm sure many people on this forum - that having the 320 as the smallest type in the fleet (particularly in the current environment) and being forced out of regional UK markets (where they used to have a very good network, as EI-BUD reminded us, above) is not the way to go.
RE certainly needs somewhere else to put its fleet once the PSO dies off and FR is only going to tighten the screws on EI as it seeks to take it over, one way or another, so something does need to be done.