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Around 80% of the flights are flybe. So im guessing if no other carrier steps in and picks up the routes. Belfast city airport will have to close.
Looks like it's over for FlyBe
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Around 80% of the flights are flybe. So im guessing if no other carrier steps in and picks up the routes. Belfast city airport will have to close.
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That doesn’t make sense. How can this be?
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Quite a few jobs at risk I'd imagine
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According to flight radar there’s been flights today with Flybe. News said all flights where grounded.
Virgin were part of the consortium that bailed them out a couple of months ago.
Evidently they couldn't keep it afloat long enough to actually get the rebrand underway.
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Ah I never knew this, maybe Virgin Media might just completely rebrand to virgin airlines. A proper name for the mile high club.
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Explains that then.
Cheaper to let the, go bankrupt first maybe.... /conspiracy
Cheaper to let the, go bankrupt first maybe.... /conspiracy
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Such a shame. I have almost zero vision, and they were always so good on that front, getting me though the airport and onto the plane, and again in reverse. This was consistent at English speaking and non-English speaking airports.
Ryanair as a comparison weren't as good imo.
Ryanair as a comparison weren't as good imo.
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That's a pretty low bar as a comparison, tbh.
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https://www.flybe.com is now dead.
Just about to post the same thing.
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That's Southampton airport practically useless now then :/
Can normally hear the flights taking off from my house, thought it was rather quiet this evening.
Can normally hear the flights taking off from my house, thought it was rather quiet this evening.
There have been flights. Flights are now grounded.
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There's a few left in the air at the moment, but yes after that.
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I think Exeter, Southampton and Belfast City could be in mega trouble because of this. Shame really. I've never used Southampton airport as they only flew to places I didn't want to visit, mostly in France!
Ahh capitalism, just the way the cookie smashes into the ground unfortunately.
The Execs will land on their feet at another £200k+ job while the plebs will be running around aimlessly because no other company will hire them due to the virus reducing trade, zero-hours it is then.
That's of course unless someone buys the business for a £1, but I just don't see how that works out with the pandemic running it's course.
The Execs will land on their feet at another £200k+ job while the plebs will be running around aimlessly because no other company will hire them due to the virus reducing trade, zero-hours it is then.
That's of course unless someone buys the business for a £1, but I just don't see how that works out with the pandemic running it's course.
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Used them from Murcia to Norwich. Worst app I've ever come across, and a tiny plane with only two seats per side. It was actually a very good and comfortable flight. Much nicer than my Murcia and Alicante flights to Stansted or Luton. Always wondered why with trains being so expensive and mostly rubbish, why the UK doesn't have a proper internal air travel market like many other countries.
If flights from Martinique to Guadeloupe or worse from Martinique to St Lucia are profitable, how can a route from Exeter to Manchester or London not be.
If flights from Martinique to Guadeloupe or worse from Martinique to St Lucia are profitable, how can a route from Exeter to Manchester or London not be.