I'm sure the actors they employed enjoy their little day trips?!

Obviously not full first class, just a more expensive economy, maybe with free drinks.

If you've got the big seats with more room + new routes from the heart of london, why not employ them usefully?

EDIT: Also, where would we be if people routinely looked around and thought "well, nobody else does this, we'll not bother"

Is there any reason why BE serve Paris-Orly from Southampton when every other route to Paris they operate goes into Charles de Gaulle?

Some time ago, BE operated SOUCDG in competition to AF on SOUORY. I think that a commercial agreement was reached for BE to operate the Paris route with an AF codeshare, around the same time as they signed a wider codeshare agreement on their UK to France routes but with ORY as the arrival point instead of CDG ex SOU.

has the performance improved in terms of numbers at the lcy operation in recent months

Anyone know when the winter schedule is going to be out? Trying to book a Southampton to Belfast trip in November. I thought it was due right at the start of June?

Flybe flight grounded by bee on Southampton to Dublin journey - BBC News :D:D

I can only assume the bee misinterpreted their name and thought it was FlyBee! ;)

195's & winter 2015/6
 

JetJamie

Re the winter schedule - just showing off that they have plenty of cash in the bank!!!!

The only problem with that is that they have run the risk that all the city-break traffic and skiers have booked with other airlines and yes I do know the majority of flybe bookings are in last three months prior to departure but in the past at least they have put the ski routes on sale before the rest.

Has there been a change of tack with the 195's, as a sixth 195 has been returned to service today?

I can't see any mention of flying 6 195's this summer unless this all changed with the Cardiff arrangement but I understood the aircraft were due to be the 195's from Manchester and Birmingham and duly the first aircraft flew last week down from MAN to CWL (MAN - CDG now a 175) and the booking engine shows BHX-CDG changing to the 175 from September.

However G-FBEN sneaked into BHX yesterday from Exeter and has operated BHX- Milan tonight with the other 195 on BHX-CDG as usual.

Pete

G-FBEK and G-FBEL have been laid up for the longest of any of the 195s, and in Newquay - and I'm hearing that these aircraft may present significant "challenges" to return to service due to the deterioration in their condition during the storage. Any updates on whether this pair are expected to return?

I do hope Flybe can find a way to keep their E195's operating, presumably renegotiated lease terms could help this to happen although we of course do not know the full details. With the economy improving and passenger numbers growing having a few larger aircraft to increase capacity on the peak routes and allow for some longer routes to be flown (i.e. UK-Spain is one of the busiest country pairings in the world for air traffic, and there are still quite a few niches that could be explored via W patterns or flights to smaller Spanish airports).

Wiki states (I know I know...) that Flybe currently have 10 in the fleet, and I would think that 8-10 aircraft would probably be all Flybe would need to cover the areas I have mentioned above. They of course also have a decent amount of commonality with the E175 fleet which helps reduce the additional costs of having a small number of a different aircraft type in the fleet.

Well there are plenty of unserved niched routes out of Manchester that are possible for Flybe, Seville, Bordeaux, Lyon & Bremen(vacated by RYR) to name a few. Much better than going head to head with Lufthansa on Dusseldorf

195's in service
 

As of today G-FBEF, G, H, I, J, and N are in service

195's
 

Whispering Giant

K showing on libhomeradar as the last flight back in January 2014.

BHX-CDG

195 showing restored to the route for winter leaving the 175 for just for 7 weeks over September and October.

Manchester seems to be the same and I assume just the 195 transferring from Southampton and Exeter after the sun routes end.

Pete

G-FBEK hasn't been in service at Exeter this year yet, it's been FBEJ and FBEF mainly, with I think FBEH operating this week.

I hope that clears up the confusion.

Winter schedule is available

According to the flybe facebook page it's only a partial release.


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Flybe Winter schedule
 

Highlights identified so far are:

MAN - AMS increase to 6 per day
LPL - BHD increase to 5 per day
LPL - IOM increase to 4 per day

LPL - AMS remains at 3 per day, so that's one heck of an increase in capacity from North West to AMS on a daily basis!

Flybe at BHX
 

AMS - 6 daily
DUS 5 daily

From Winter schedule

how is the exeter-lcy route performing has it improved in recent months