Flybe-9

[racedo]

Originally Posted by Set 1013

Airsouthwest, the administrators are keeping a small number of flight ops staff employed to keep the AOC running. They have also kept some flybe engineers on to maintain the aircraft until they leave or otherwise.

It is pretty standard that you keep a certain number of people from the old business on. Bumped into old work colleague who worked for a now defunct business and he kept on for 9 months after business folded. Mind you every day was going in playing cards, chatting and on the internet as liquidators were seeking a buyer and need his expertise to show them around.

[Cyrano]

Previously I had thought that part of the intention of the flybe owners was to keep going until they gained grandfather rights over the Heathrow IAG remedy slots. A couple of posters a few weeks ago pointed out reasons why my theory didn't work. (Then of course reality set in and flybe closed down anyway.)

Now there's confirmation from ACL that the flybe remedy slots have reverted to BA: https://www.acl-uk.org/wp-content/up...-S20-BE-BA.pdf.

With the announced suspension of the 80/20 rule due to coronavirus, BA won't actually have to operate these slots in S2020.

[Letsflycwl]

Sad seeing a Flybe Dash 8 parked up at LHR this morning amongst the Dreamliners and Airbus aircraft.

[DC3 Dave]

It’s a big thumbs up to state aid from the EU. Member states are being encouraged to take action as they see fit to keep essential sectors, such as transport, operating.

All too late for Flybe.

[SWBKCB]

Ignoring the French regional routes, has anybody been keeping score of which flyBe routes have been picked up and which are still vacant - don't remember any of the international ones? BHX seems quiet?

[medod]

Exeter

Exeter have just three scheduled flights a day now. Isles of Scilly, Jersey, Geurnsey.

Is that, plus a bit of cargo and flight training, enough to fund an ATC and AFRS?

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[Dropoffcharge]

Originally Posted by medod

Is that, plus a bit of cargo and flight training, enough to fund an ATC and AFRS?

Guess this will be the big question for most if not all airports going forward now, what each one has outside of commercial operations to keep them afloat, worrying times indeed.

[Flying Sheep]

Originally Posted by tregeseal

We have had staff briefings about cost cutting and restructure, everything is in scope. Tuesdays no scheduled flights, Cobham rotary training, SAR and air ambulance only some days. Very worrying times here.

Newquay Airport
Think you have forgotten your only based airline at Newquay. Skybus are running daily scheduled flights to IOS out of Newquay.

[bmaviscount]

Originally Posted by medod

Exeter have just three scheduled flights a day now. Isles of Scilly, Jersey, Geurnsey.

Is that, plus a bit of cargo and flight training, enough to fund an ATC and AFRS?

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Thats all they used to have in the late 80s early nineties

[bean]

Originally Posted by bmaviscount

Thats all they used to have in the late 80s early nineties

Yes, but they expanded to cover rheir main customer who has now gone to the wall.
What happens to the people whose jobs were created by the need to serve Flybe?

[medod]

"Flybe" MRO

A good friend of mine worked on the maintenance side and this has now gone public:

We are the former Flybe aviation engineers of the South West, and we believe there is a future in keeping the engineering, maintenance & repair services alive.

We believe we CAN fix it!

Over 300 skilled aviation engineers available in Exeter, Devon to get started now! Experienced in Line, C-check and A-check maintenance.

Proven track record of on time hand backs and a long list of satisfied customers.

Establishing a maintenance and repair operation in the SW would ensure jobs for the current skilled workforce and secure livelihoods of their families. Over and above, it would allow for training and apprenticeship programs to continue and secure the future skilled engineers of the SW!

Please share to support our efforts!

​​​​​They really want a make a go of this and quite rightly too

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...0&id=775449269

[EISNN]

I was passing through MAN yesterday and noticed that there are about eight or nine FlyBe aircraft parked up. Has no one claimed them back? It seems a shame to see them sitting there with trucks or steps blocking their push back. I’d hope they’re being looked after by maintenance engineers somewhere. Not the best time of year to be constantly parked up I’d imagine.

[sinbad73]

Originally Posted by EISNN

I was passing through MAN yesterday and noticed that there are about eight or nine FlyBe aircraft parked up. Has no one claimed them back? It seems a shame to see them sitting there with trucks or steps blocking their push back. I’d hope they’re being looked after by maintenance engineers somewhere. Not the best time of year to be constantly parked up I’d imagine.

I think there will be a lot more than 8 or 9 flyBe's parked up soon - are you watching the news?!

[Wycombe]

I was passing through MAN yesterday and noticed that there are about eight or nine FlyBe aircraft parked up

Apparently the 6 Dashes at SOU have "had the cobwebs blown off" today.

[jijpc]

According to Jethros there are currently 4 E170s and 7 Q400s at Manchester. Until landing fees and other charges due to the airport are paid I don’t think they will be going anywhere.

[EISNN]

Who owns them? Were they leased or owned by FlyBe? Or is it a mix?

[nohold]

I understand that G-PRPH will ferry from Heathrow to Exeter this afternoon (March 18th 2020).

[Sotonsean]

Originally Posted by jijpc

According to Jethros there are currently 4 E170s and 7 Q400s at Manchester. Until landing fees and other charges due to the airport are paid I don’t think they will be going anywhere.

You would have thought that due to the current circumstances and also the demise of Flybe that those airport charges would be waived. Not just Manchester Airport but all airport's. I'm talking about landing fees more than anything else.

[bricquebec]

Originally Posted by Sotonsean

You would have thought that due to the current circumstances and also the demise of Flybe that those airport charges would be waived. Not just Manchester Airport but all airport's. I'm talking about landing fees more than anything else.

Why should they? Better an unsecured creditor, than not at all. And, depending on the legal situation, which I am not qualified to comment upon, they may even enjoy some security as a result of having possession of the aircraft.

[Sotonsean]

Originally Posted by bricquebec

Why should they? Better an unsecured creditor, than not at all. And, depending on the legal situation, which I am not qualified to comment upon, they may even enjoy some security as a result of having possession of the aircraft.

Quoting from my original post, "I'm talking about landing fees more than anything else".

Landing fees are easy to be scrapped from the debt due, any other fees can be and should be paid. By the time the creditors are finished with winding up Flybe there will be absolutely nothing left for the employees and this is always the case when a company goes bust.

Trying to get such things such as landing fees paid from a bankrupt airline is just pure greed in my opinion. I know that it's the norm in these circumstances but the aircraft are where they are, there not costing the airport much if anything. The company's gone and the airport's wrap up even more debt on the creditors, it makes me sick.

I know it's business at the end of day and I totally understand that but it annoys me whenever a company goes bust there's never anything left in the pot to pay the former employees. I know I've been there.