Originally Posted by
Gurnard
Absolutely not so. COVID was having no effect upon Flybe in early March and in the previous months. COVID only began to bite after the collapse of Flybe. Those who are connecting Flybe's failure with COVID are putting up a smoke screen. You are correct to point to the financial figures instead.
Having flown with BE in late Feb I can assure you COVID absolutely was biting. In fact on my flight outbound with EZY I had a whole row to myself (the 6 seats). Which is pretty remarkable on an end-of-week northbound to EDI.