With all due respect to the above replies unless you all work for CitiExpress you cannot comment about things you do not know about.
The comment about breaking up the airline and scrapping it is nothing short of stupid, this would involve making almost 650 pilots and over a thousand cabin crew redundant. For those of you still looking for your first job that would be 650 experienced pilots with plenty of jet time, I do not think you want these pilots on the dole looking for work, you might just as well pack your shiny new ATPL away and go back to your previous occupations.
Some facts from those who know, yes the integration of three airlines Brymon BRAL and BAR has been difficult without any doubt, with many changes and several final size and shape reviews for those of us concerned. But and it still is a big but at this stage the airline is starting to turn around all three airlines have come together and are working as one, fares have come down and load factors have gone up, now the trick is to start tweaking the fare structure in order to actually make some money out of each ticket sold. Our aircraft fleet is slowly being rationalised and will in the not too distant future consist of just jet types with quite possibly the Emb 170 becoming the standard aircraft alongside with which the Emb 145 would operate thinner routes.
Our salaries are quite reasonable given the work we do, we now have flying pay on top of our salaries, disruption payments a generous leave entitlement of seven weeks a year and a much better organised rostering system with recently introduced automatic checking in and out for flight deck and cabin crew, for many of us though not all we have final salary pension schemes very much a rarity in todays workplace. Most of us fly very pleasant jet equipment (for those of you who haven't flown or flown in an Emb 145 then no comment please, Embraer must be doing something right with over 700 sold in 7 years) with the chance of much nicer and bigger Emb 170/190 jet equipment to come in the future.
To sum up yes we have our problems along with just about every other airline in the world today with the exception of perhaps Emirates. We have had our moans about management but what employee doesn't in any industry. At the end of the day our airline is still in place as the largest regional airline in Europe with one of the largest and increasingly better run world airlines as our parent. Would BRAL and Brymon still be around given the events of September 11 we will never know but there is certainally some doubt. Given most of the other airlines in the UK at the moment I know where I would rather be.