hi Rivet,
you wrote:
Unfortunately we are seeing the demise of an airline that for me genuinely shook up the market introducing the revolutionary Q400 which enabled them to conquer all the old dinosaurs (Bacon/BMI etc)
but
Bacon came into being on 01 02 2006, whereas flybe, or Jersey European was launched in 1979, predating the "dinosaur" Bacon by 17 years.
not sure I follow your logic