Articles Tagged ‘Flybe’
Flybe increases Belfast City services for winter 2022/23
Flybe continues to grow with a new winter schedule that will see the airline fly to 12 destinations. New winter flights will commence on 30 October and include additional routes and frequencies from Birmingham to Belfast City Airport and Belfast City Airport to East Midlands.
Southampton Airport welcomes Flybe services to Avignon and Toulon
Flybe has launched two summer routes to France from Southampton Airport. The services to Avignon and Toulon are operated with a 78-seater Q400. It comes as Flybe also introduces daily flights to Belfast City.
New Flybe launches with inaugural Birmingham to Belfast City service
The new Flybe officially launched on 13 April 2022 with its inaugural flight departing Birmingham Airport for Belfast City Airport. It marked the beginning of up to four daily flights between Birmingham and Belfast City, with additional routes to start in the coming weeks and months.
New Flybe announces Birmingham headquarters and first crew base
Flybe has announced that Birmingham Airport will be its new company headquarters and first new crew base. The airline will serve key regions across the UK and EU with operations scheduled to begin in early 2022.
Newquay to Manchester; RDC Aviation shows case for year-round service
Newquay to Manchester had winter PDEW of 78 in 2019, but easyJet and Loganair end in October. We look at the case for year-round.
Loganair ‘won’t be another flybe’, MD tell us; Isle of Man to LHR coming?
In a wide-ranging interview with Jonathan Hinkles, Loganair MD, he told us that the carrier has “no ambition to have 60+ aircraft and looking like flybe.”
flybe had 15 international routes with £16m profit in 2019, RDC’s Apex shows – 11 still unserved
11 of flybe’s most profitable international routes still unserved – but what are they? Southampton key, with 121% fare premium over Ryanair at Bournemouth.
Jet2 announces five routes to Jersey, joining existing Leeds Bradford
Five routes revealed by Jet2 – with one unserved since 2014 and another ended this current year. In 2019, they had 191,000 passengers; we explore them.
Aer Lingus Regional takes off to East Midlands and Leeds Bradford
Aer Lingus Regional has launched Belfast City to both East Midlands and Leeds Bradford, with these routes having a combined 295,000+ passengers last year.
Edinburgh appoints Kate Sherry as Aviation Director; airport reached almost 15 million in 2019
Kate Sherry’s 10 years as Ryanair’s Director of Route Development will be helpful, with LCCs just 40,000 seats short of 10 million at Edinburgh last year.
78% of flybe’s international routes still unserved; Southampton worst hit
Only 17 of flybe’s 77 international routes last Sept are now operated. WF are down by 342 YOY, with Southampton hardest hit. Which routes will return?
Aer Lingus Regional announces 6 routes from Belfast City; had 1m passengers with flybe last year
We analyse the development of these routes and look at how flybe and Aer Lingus Regional’s frequencies differ as easyJet’s grows at nearby Belfast International.