This may be my experience of newspapers making up sports stories by using internet forums, but...
Not in this case.
Story I am hearing is that FlyFor Beans were preffered bidders until they actually looked at and finally understood the financial picture and despite getting Welsh Assembly funding quickly pulled out of the process. Lufthansa then went grovelling back to ASL to ask if they were still interested. The silence was deafening in reply.
Intro made an offer but by then FFB had started to offer jobs to the current management team in Tiny Town and so Intro and at least one other group had been told quite firmly that no other offers were to be accepted. Stobart had looked at the books and immediately withdrew.
Regional had one other group that made an offer and Lufthansa were only interested in Granite, for whatever reason, even when one of the investors in Granite was rumoured to be someone who has made headlines in Scotland for all the wrong reasons.
Whatever happens now, it looks like Lufthansa have spectacularly messed up the sales of Baby and Regional. It will cost them millions and in the worst case scenario hundereds of people their jobs. Wolfgang has done a top job
