hi bean, you appear to have read quite a bit about Flybe, I only skim through the comments on PPRUNE, is it worth summarising how things have gone since the new management team took over for those of us who are too lazy to read it all? Did the last set of financial results from the previous management show profit or was it loss? How many pilots left during the doom and gloom period and how many have they recruited since? How many new routes started and dropped ?Which ones have turned out to be "keepers" ? I guess if 3 or more of the 6 (?) LCY route are good then its a bit of a result.
I would have thought starting new routes would have a significant cost attached from advertising and the early flights being low yield and load factors, surely starting and dropping a large number of routes in one year must affect the profitability of the airline?