PaulW,
Flybe has successfully navigated trough the financial storm asking its workforce to take a pay freeze, requested for volunteers for overseas contracts etc.
The business is profitable unlike many competitors included jet ones.
The workforce has played its role in this success and must now be rewarded.
I don't have any chip on my shoulder flying a TP simply because it's more hard work than a jet and you get to handfly it more and more often.
Finally Flybe shifts more passenger on the British domestic market. This leadership has to reflect on the payscale.