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Old 29th Mar 2020, 17:49
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Albert Hall
 
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Although the switch to Amadeus wasn't helpful, I think there were some rather larger issues around!

RivetJoint, I'd been told that the lessors had afforded Flybe quite a lot of latitude as they did not want a load of parked and unsaleable Q400s. They have been bitten badly as all of the debts left after Flybe had negotiated revised payment terms at the airports have become their problem given how these things work. They have not only got a load of unwanted aircraft back but are having to pay a lot to the airports to un-impound them.

The thing that ultimately brought Flybe to a halt that night was a fuel supplier at Glasgow pulling its credit terms and then the airport reacting. Something was going to start the domino effect at some point, but in terms of the final trigger, that's what did it. Nothing to do with the lessors.
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