Originally Posted by
crewmeal
All carriers have bad press. You only have to look at Ryanair to see the amout of negative comments there are on various sites, but folk still come back for more. Flybe is going through a difficult time with its future and the amount of cancellations the other day only magnify the problem. Like everything else in the world it is yesterday's news and those cancellations will soon be forgotton unless your an armchair pruner making it drag on for months!
Am I wrong, or were last weeks cancellations not that much worse than has happened on previous "bad days"? Clearly it's never good to mess around passengers at short notice, but as in all modes of public transport occasionally "sh1t happens".
What has been perhaps overlooked, and not reported is just how much notice BE has given of the closure of the bases, and the dropping of routes that are coming down the tracks at the start of the winter season. There is more than one large LCC that would have knocked services on the head a month's notice, rather than carrying on for 6 months - good on FlyBe for that.