Handysnaks
There was no seniority issue or compulsory redundancies involved, either at Beccles or Aberdeen. All Beccles pilots were offered redeployment within the Company and retraining where necessary. Alternatively they could take redundancy.
Some of those S76 qualified and experienced (although on our S76As) elected to go to KLM as already mentioned, a number went onto a commuting roster for S61s in Sumburgh which allowed them to remain living where they were, one or two were made welcome in Aberdeen and IIRC a couple took the redundancy offer.
Yes those S61 qualified pilots would have loved to be granted TUPE and retraining onto KLM's S76 types to fly out of Norwich and thereby to make redeployment unnecessary, but the reality was that Shells experience 'ON TYPE' requirements meant that there was no way TUPE could practically work even if granted, which it wasn't.