Why is it that BA, KLM, Lufthansa, Air France etc choose to night stop crews all over Europe rather than operate tiny bases at each destination?
Because it is far more efficient to have one (or several) large crew bases and utilise the crew better than to operate many tiny crew bases as Flybe have been doing for years.
It is not surprising that those who have been displaced or made redundant are disappointed and/or angry and believe me they all have my sympathy, it has happened to me before. But the fact is, it's a business and it has to make money or cease to exist altogether, costing several thousand more jobs.