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Old 4th Feb 2012, 05:43
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crewmeal
 
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Flybe

I would add to that the flight times to Hamburg are of very little use to business fliers and the fact that the flight only operates on four or five days a week for months in Winter.
Flybe's business model is non existent as far as I'm concerned. A friend of mine was charged £445 to fly to Dundee and back last year and although he was on business his company paid up. He was still charged for refreshments onboard and the timings were unsuitable for him to use the route more than once. Their 'one class fits all' for business travellers will never work. Basically they are a low cost carrier trying to screw the public for as much as possible and offer very little in return. Their Q400's are unreliable. Every other week you seem to read about some drama they had in the press. However their operation is more suited flying pensioners from SOU BOH, NWI BLK etc to the Channel Islands and leave the bigger airports to the bigger carriers to provide a more reliable service.
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