FlyBe £500 m. order

[Gary_Haliday]

Don't know where the money is coming from, but check the link !!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/h...on/2968811.stm

[RadAlt]

Q400

"It's extremely good news for Guernsey, because the runway is short and it will give us the opportunity to operate into Southampton from there.

And a BAe146 is not capable of this?

[spagiola]

Yes, a 146 could do it, as well. But they're bigger, which is fine if you can fill them. If not, the Q400 will be better.

[Spitoon]

Come on, leyland bros, it's not like flybe are the only airline that don't own (m)any planes.

[snooze_ya_lose]

flybe actually own quite a few of their 146s now. That doesn't of course mean that the Q400s won't be leased via a third party (which actually makes a lot of sense if the third party is offshore). This is common practice.

To believe that anyone pays cash for new aircraft these days is to show a complete ignorance of how the industry works.