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Flybe have just posted the following info on its website:
Flybe Announces Base Changes
Flybe Announces Base Changes
FLYBE ANNOUNCES BASE CHANGES
The 78-seat Bombardier Q-400 will continue as the backbone of Flybe’s network, being the ideal aircraft for the regional network it provides to connect the UK and the UK regions with the rest of the world.
The following airports are impacted:
Exeter - following discussions with the airport, Flybe will cease jet operations with effect from the start of the 2019-20 Winter programme. The last jet flights will therefore operate on Saturday 26th October 2019. This will not impact the Q400 operated schedule out of Exeter, nor the existing base structure
Norwich - as with Exeter, Flybe will cease jet operations with effect from the start of the 2019-20 Winter programme. This will not affect services at Norwich operated by Flybe’s franchise partner, Eastern Airways.
Cardiff & Doncaster - Flybe will cease jet operations out of these airports with effect from the start of the 2019-20 Winter programme. Flybe currently has a base at both airports to service its jet services. Once the jet flights cease Flybe will close these bases, but will continue to offer flights to and from both Cardiff and Doncaster on Q400 with aircraft and crew flying from other bases.
Flybe would like to stress that the current flight cancellations being experienced are not linked to this decision and are the result of a combination of other factors.
Flybe CEO, Christine Ourmières-Widener said:
“Our fleet reduction has always been core to improving our profitability. We are committed to assisting all our affected employees across the impacted Flybe bases. We remain fully committed to Exeter, Cardiff and Doncaster airports and will continue to offer a comprehensive choice of regional and European destinations operated by our 78-seat Bombardier Q400 aircraft”
- Airline to stop jet flights from Cardiff, Doncaster, Exeter and Norwich, but will continue with Q400 flying
- Current flight cancellations are unrelated to this decision
The 78-seat Bombardier Q-400 will continue as the backbone of Flybe’s network, being the ideal aircraft for the regional network it provides to connect the UK and the UK regions with the rest of the world.
The following airports are impacted:
Exeter - following discussions with the airport, Flybe will cease jet operations with effect from the start of the 2019-20 Winter programme. The last jet flights will therefore operate on Saturday 26th October 2019. This will not impact the Q400 operated schedule out of Exeter, nor the existing base structure
Norwich - as with Exeter, Flybe will cease jet operations with effect from the start of the 2019-20 Winter programme. This will not affect services at Norwich operated by Flybe’s franchise partner, Eastern Airways.
Cardiff & Doncaster - Flybe will cease jet operations out of these airports with effect from the start of the 2019-20 Winter programme. Flybe currently has a base at both airports to service its jet services. Once the jet flights cease Flybe will close these bases, but will continue to offer flights to and from both Cardiff and Doncaster on Q400 with aircraft and crew flying from other bases.
Flybe would like to stress that the current flight cancellations being experienced are not linked to this decision and are the result of a combination of other factors.
Flybe CEO, Christine Ourmières-Widener said:
“Our fleet reduction has always been core to improving our profitability. We are committed to assisting all our affected employees across the impacted Flybe bases. We remain fully committed to Exeter, Cardiff and Doncaster airports and will continue to offer a comprehensive choice of regional and European destinations operated by our 78-seat Bombardier Q400 aircraft”
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and completely demolished the majority of shareholder value in doing so. You would have to question how long the Chairman has, as he presided over the fall from the initial offer price all the way down to 1p.
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it’s because of the sale to Virgin,Flybe are in the situation they are today . Many flight deck leaving non hub bases due to uncertainty about redundancy at regional bases
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It has possibly been discussed earlier in the thread so apologies if I am asking a silly question - but do we think VS have offered the £2.8m or whatever it was to get their hands in BE's LHR slots and then they bin the rest of the non-LHR routes?
Pax will be fully entitled to claim the EU 361 cancelled flights compo (less than 7 days before departure) plus hotac and meals if stranded I would think on most routes, and compo for the so-called ops and tech delays (incl no crew)
gonna cost Flybe a wad of ££££
gonna cost Flybe a wad of ££££
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You are forgetting that recruitment would have been a problem before Virgin and Stobart came along, because the company was going down the pan. No wonder they are struggling now.
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It has possibly been discussed earlier in the thread so apologies if I am asking a silly question - but do we think VS have offered the £2.8m or whatever it was to get their hands in BE's LHR slots and then they bin the rest of the non-LHR routes?
What has happened to the CAA's attitude that they would not accept an AOC holder who "did not have the resources to operate their public schedules". This requirement was what led to sub-chartering in whatever capacity could be found, at considerable additional cost, to cover scheduled operations that the carrier themselves found they did not have crew/aircraft/whatever for. The only excuse for cancellation was "zero comercial load", ie no bookings at all.
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Assuming this crewing issue isn't resolved anytime soon, are more cancellations each day likely to become the norm in the coming days/weeks?? If so will indeed be costing them mega £££££££