The Government is considering cutting Air Passenger Duty (APD) on domestic flights in a bid to save regional airline Flybe (BE/BEE). It is understood that Flybe currently owes around £100m in unpaid Air Passenger Duty but deferring it would be seen as state-aid under EU regulations meaning the only viable [read more]
Flybe has asked the government to help it defer a massive Air Passenger Duty (APD) bill in a bid to help it avoid the collapse of the airline. The bill is understood to run into millions of pounds but deferring it would be classed as state-aid and a breach of [read more]
Sources close to regional airline Flybe (BE/BEE) have confirmed that the airline is in talks to try and secure additional finance to avoid a total collapse of the carrier just a year after it was bought Connect Airways Ltd. The Department of Transport (DoT) has been briefed on the situation [read more]
UK regional airline Flybe (BE/BEE) is to begin a consultation over redundancies amongst staff at it’s Exeter Head Office according to internal communications from the airlines new owners Connect Airways. The message to staff from Connect Airways CEO Mark Anderson says that as part of the streamlining of the airline [read more]
Loganair (LM/LOG) and Flybe (BE/BEE) have announced that they are entering into a new codeshare agreement which will allow customers to book flights via either airline. The deal comes 2 years after Flybe and Loganair ended their franchise agreement, something which sparked Loganair’s rapid growth as a leading regional airline [read more]
The Flybe name is set to disappear from airports in 2020 as new owners, Connect Airways Ltd, rebrand the airline as Virgin Connect. As we reported earlier this year, the new owners had always planned to rebrand the regional airline after rescuing it from near collapse and the new name [read more]
Cardiff Airport (CWL/EGFF) has been hit with fresh woes this week as it emerged Spanish airline Vueling will cut capacity on one of its key routes from the Welsh Government-owned airport in winter 19/20. The previously year-round service to Malaga will now be cut back through November 2019 and will [read more]
A Flybe (BE/BEE) Dash 8-Q400 (G-JECN) hit a Ground Power Unit at Southampton Airport earlier this year because the pilots had forgotten to turn on the Standby Hydraulics. The aircraft had arrived at Southampton Airport (SOU/EGHI) from Jersey (JER/EGJJ) on the 2nd March 2019 and was operating the last of [read more]
The crew of a Flybe Dash 8 didn’t turn on the pressurisation system of their aircraft leading to an emergency descent last year. The incident, which happened on the 21st September 2018, was reported to the Air Accident Investigations Branch (AAIB) by the crew. The aircraft, G-PRPC, had taken off [read more]
The Flybe brand will start to disappear form airports after the European Commission (EC) approved the takeover of its business by Connect Airways Ltd, a group led by Virgin Atlantic and Stobart Group. Flybe turned from a profitable regional airline into an airline on the verge of collapse under the [read more]
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