Most probably bringing about death by stealth, from my point of view it seems like they've definitely shafted Stobart.
It's the Stobart Group who have shafted Stobart Air to satisfy what can only be described as pipe dream after pipe dream. Carlisle-Dublin will be the next un viable route and will fail! Flybe agreeing to operate the route must of being heavily dependent on next to no charges.
Just an idea, as the Cityjet leased ATR is supposed to be returned at the end of the month wouldn't an AT42 be more suitable for the BE SEN routes capacity wise and could then replace the current AT72 and maybe used for SEN-DUB ops?
Cost wise not a major difference..