It's easy to say what routes Flybe should not have flown. However, what routes should Flybe have flown that they didn't fly (assuming it was to be a real airline aiming to survive long-term and not just a way of flogging LHR slots as quickly as possible) ? With many of the better candidates already snapped up after Flybe v1 went bust in spring 2020, there wasn't an awful lot of choice. Their timing of starting in spring 2022 was pretty good vis-a-vis the UK returning to normal post-Covid. Apart from the LHR routes, I find myself thinking that a fair number of the routes they chose (e.g. Belfast and Birmingham bases) were some of the least bad of an uninspiring bunch