Flybe-V2
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There have been frequent statements that the late delivery of the Q400s meant they couldn't build up fast enough and lacked scale, including in the administrator's report. It's rather hard to see how building up faster would have done anything other than burned even more money more quickly than they did.
Well it was always going to be a struggle but what killed them off quick was the appalling inability to run flights on time - or even at all. There aren't a lot of flyers on soem of those destinations and word gets out very very quickly if there are problems.
And boy - were there problems.
And boy - were there problems.
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There have been frequent statements that the late delivery of the Q400s meant they couldn't build up fast enough and lacked scale, including in the administrator's report. It's rather hard to see how building up faster would have done anything other than burned even more money more quickly than they did.
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Not sure whats left of the regional UK market is big to make enough cash to register a profit and absorb the sort of losses the existing route network was making.
The airline was losing around £48m - £60m a year - Loganair made £5m profit total last year!
The airline was losing around £48m - £60m a year - Loganair made £5m profit total last year!
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Presumably, as has already been stated, because there were only 6 aircraft flying of which 5 were tasked with the preservation of the LHR/AMS slots and burning through the cash quickly as these routes could never be profitable on that size of aircraft. They needed the extra aircraft to come quickly in order to fly regional flying that actually could make money to absorb the losses incurred on the LHR slot play. All of which proved to be a fools errand in the end!
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I get the point, but that is predicated on the assumption that any of the regional flying would work. Up against Emerald, BA and Aer Lingus (at the time) in BHD, KLM in Amsterdam, easyJet now running amok in BHD also, Loganair, Eastern and others - wasn't it simply a case that no matter what they did, anything worth doing was already being done by someone else and with very few exceptions, the only things left from Flybe 1.0 weren't worth doing?
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Wasn't this basically BE 1.0's big problem? If they happened to stumble across a route that was a goldmine, Ryanair or easyJet would move in and clean up?
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Flybe 1 and to a lessor extent 2.0 where trying to be everything to all types of passengers. The cabin baggage charges at the end of flybe 1 really pushed the customers to the limit and now Emerald trying the same game. It won't end well.
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What was Flybe 2's turnover? edit-- for calendar 22, it is 350,000 times sector revenue per pax.
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Yes. Interesting but probably will not find out what it goes for at auction. The brand is only good for ash trays and legally changing it to flymaybe. Not even sure the social media element has value seeing as the airlines trustpilot rating never improved over V.1. 81% one star. Good work.
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Flybe website now showing a purple cover screen and the original logo of the MK1 company, with administration enquiries being redirected to Interpath's own site. Surely not another round of this. An administration report is due in the next few days if I understand correctly.
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After two failures, Flybe as a brand/name is seriously damaged/tainted, so you'd like to think that nobody would be *that* crazy to want to resurrect it for a third outing, but the saying goes...“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.”
I wonder if the AOC from Flybe 2.0 is still active/available and whether any new prospective Flybe 3.0 operation would be able to buy/use it, or would they have to do the same as what happened when Flybe 1.0 went into administration and obtain a fresh one (as Flybe 2.0 did...!) because I understand that AOCs are not usually allowed to be simply transferred over, particularly not Type A ones.
I wonder if the AOC from Flybe 2.0 is still active/available and whether any new prospective Flybe 3.0 operation would be able to buy/use it, or would they have to do the same as what happened when Flybe 1.0 went into administration and obtain a fresh one (as Flybe 2.0 did...!) because I understand that AOCs are not usually allowed to be simply transferred over, particularly not Type A ones.
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I’m guessing the change to the website is more to do with the fact that 12 months have now elapsed since Flybe went into administration, so guidance for those who held bookings is now longer required.
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I seem to recall it having been offline for a considerable period (in the region of months) already - the use of the existing brand on a website no longer legally required is a little odd surely.
Devon airline Flybe has finally been dissolved leaving £700m of debts unpaid. The Exeter-based carrier was at one time a million-passenger operation but it fell into administration in early 2020 and has now finally been wound up. Documents filed at Companies House reveal the firm, now called FBE Realisations 2021 Ltd, ceased to exist on March 18.
Administrators for FBE Realisations 2021 Ltd revealed in filed documents last October that there were more than 935,460 claims from unsecured creditors amounting to a jaw-dropping £684m. Following a hearing in the High Court a notice was sent to all creditors telling them they would not receive any money.
Investigations into all Flybe Ltd/FBE Realisations directors, shadow directors or de-facto directors, for their conduct in the three years before the administration, concluded and no action is being taken against them.