Breaking news. There will be no winter schedule from DSA or CWL as both bases to close. EXT Ejet operations to stop too, all at the end of this summer season.

Good luck to all the great crews potentially affected by this awful news.

News of the cancellations is spreading fast.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47797738

What is your source of the closures?

What on earth is going on, operational issues impacting so many flights, bizarre. Is this a shortage of crew, sickness? Does anybody know the specifics...

EI-BUD

See post #1866

Yes, alot of crew woke up this morning to the news that their base is closing and cabin crew are up for redundancy. Would you be fit to operate having opened your inbox this morning to read this?

None of the Flybe winter schedules are on sale yet for the Winter? Also not seen anything which says DSA and CWL closing for winter. Dangerous gossip if not facts!

Is there any summary of where the cancellations are?
Given that CWL is rumoured to be closing theres only one cancellation this evening to VRN.

Edit: looks like it's true!
https://ukaviation.news/flybe-to-clo...-exeter-bases/

I too read the BBC story earlier this morning. A quick check at 07:58 shows there are 26 Flybe flights in the air at this time. At the same time yesterday, there were 23 in the air, so not much seems to have changed.

Not good for Cardiff. 14 out of their 24 daily departures at risk. not good at Doncaster either with half the scheduled departures flown by Flybe.
bb

ironically the Doncaster and Cardiff flights were among the flights flown

And are part of project Blackbird, which funds the flights. Surely the routes cant be performing that bad that they are still unprofitable with the funding?
BEs prices vs other operators out of BRS and CWL weren't always cheaper, and various routes like DUB, EDI and CDG have grown to decent frequencies with good LFs

I posted yesterday that there would be a cull and was shouted down.
I fear these routes will be lost forever from DSA as there just aren't any interested operators there to pick them up.

You got lucky

I think Loganair would pick up a lot of the slack.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day https://www.pprune.org/images/smilies2/eusa_wall.gif

TimmyW you were shouted down only on the fact you stated on the aircrafts where abouts.

However there is no hiding the the fact that Flybe are in the middle of a crisis. A crewing one. It now all seems planned perhaps. In excess of 20 flights have been cancelled so far today already network-wide and i don't see it getting better anytime soon. Again, is this all planned to give the new consortium oners the excuse to cut down down the airline sooner than later.

Virgin Atlantic have never managed anything good to do with short haul ownership or running. I guess this was written as soon as they got involved.

Best wishes to all the hard working staff affected at CWL, DSA and network-wide.