All businesses have to ‘right size’ to remain profitable and fit enough to ride out the current economic storm. Therefore, some adjustment to the FlyBe’s previously announced fleet planning is almost inevitable, especially given some of the double digit falls in pax numbers through many of their key hubs, which must be hurting them.
However, with two E-145’s to leave the fleet soon and at least two more Dash 8’s needed to launch the new LGW base, some pretty big cuts would be required to generate these aircraft, if no more Dash’s arrive and four 195’s disappear too.
Overall, these numbers don’t seem to add up, unless a major culling of frequencies and/or routes is in the offing too.