Flybe weighs options for Exeter training academy and maintenance hub | Exeter Express and Echo
The above newspaper article mentions that the future of the airline's training academy and maintenance hub at Exeter will be made known later this year. There is some speculation that they might be sold off to a third party but that the operations would continue.
The article also contained comments from Flybe's chief commercial officer suggesting that Exeter's winter sun routes will be not be restored as they have been at Southampton when he said:
Although the planes are reasonably full to the sun destinations from Exeter, the prices people are paying aren’t big enough to sustain the operation, and that’s because our aircraft aren’t big enough.
The issue we have is there’s a strong sun market out of Bristol, so if we put another £20 or £30 on the fare a lot of people would go up to Bristol.