Due to the fact it was a merger between 4 company's they were spread out quite a bit.
Think it went red hill, crawely, then Stanstead for head office.
NWI was the big maint base with a secondary in Blackpool.
HUY with its plentiful supply of local labour and cheap ground rent I suspect is going to be extremely hard to beat cost wise.
Eastern started out in Manchester as Air kilroe and the crew may still be paid from an Air Kilroe bank account.