Must have been private - there were no scheduled services of any sort during May 2020.

Ryanair have had a tidy up of their routes and it looks like for next summer 2021 that Malta and Naples have been dropped and Malaga and Alicante continue at X 2 a week

This winter sees Alicante and Malaga operate at just X1 per week

Further to the above post it looks like Ryanair are axing both Malaga and Alicante this winter as nothing on sale now until end of March

Airport MD announces his departure.

The timing couldn't be more interesting given the Jet2 expansion at BRS. Surely will affect EXT very negatively.

Electric powered aeroplanes will be tested between Exeter and Newquay airports.
Looking forward to seeing the Electric EEL!

UK's first electric commuter flight will depart from Exeter Airport

Loganair are to reinstate the Exeter to Norwich service from July the 12th.
4 times weekly during the summer then twice-weekly during the winter.

Loganair - Exeter to Norwich

Dublin route
 

Aer lingus to op exec Dublin route 4 x week mon thur fri sun

Looks like Blue Islands are terminating the Manchester link from February, so much for the 2x daily flight they had initially offered

TUI have dropped the weekly Tenerife flight for the summer , quite surprised as always a popular route

Suspect they may have some information re a certain phoenix operation

I doubt they are dropping the route because of Flybe before they have even announced it or selling tickets. Likely it just doesn’t perform.

It was posted within the Flybe thred that Blue Islands has been offered to buy Flybe mk2, could be to do with that. Blue Islands could be in the process of buying the new flybe, operating them within the U.K whilst keeping the Blue islands brand for the channel islands where its strongest.

Flybe 1.0 operated EXT-MAN and return twice daily - on occasions three times daily. That enabled day return trips and built a loyal passenger following. It was probably their busiest route out of Exeter.
Blue Islands operated the service 3 days a week with only the one flight. That mean no chance of a day-return and the necessity for a couple of night's hotel accommodation adding to the expense.
I would imagine that such an unattractive offering from Blue Islands has lead to the service's demise.

The same thing has happened to Southampton, it’s gone from one of the top performing routes to the worst since Covid and Flybe
A single Loganair J41 a day , even worse than Exeter

Domestic flying for business remains on it's backside because of recent Govt Guidance to work from home which has only now been lifted again. Blue Islands can fly the route as you propose but cannot fill it until normality beckons and that will take time and encouragement. Unlike leisure travel with huge pent up demand, many business travellers have no pressing wish to get back on the road again.

I think the route was cut because:

1) We are still in a pandemic with 'work from home' still happening - this has totally changed the market. There is NO NEED OR DEMAND for a double daily return anymore even if it was Flybe
2) Pre-pandemic, this route offered onward connections on Flybe to Scotland, Blue Islands wouldn't have had the same pull
3) Blue islands in general would have suffered somewhat from a lack of awareness and must spend a lot more on marketing than perhaps Flybe in the past generating interest for such a route
4) Road travel has become quite important during the pandemic as it offers people the comfort of being secluded in their own bubble rather than forced to wear masks and sit next to people with all the social distancing still going on

I know it’s off topic, but presumably you mean Eastern. As others have said, most likely due to the decline in business travel.

MAN from SOU was not so long ago the airports busiest route with over 200k pa and up to x 6 daily. How times have changed!

I would echo much of what has been said so far, and I think we shall never see domestic air travel return to previous levels - except perhaps to/from Northern Ireland.
For people who routinely used domestic flights, a large amount of working from home will be a permanent 'new normal'. And with that, these same people have now realised what a complete faff it was to get up at some ungodly hour of the night/morning, and drive in the freezing rain to an airport, hang-around and grab a tasteless luke-warm beverage (is this a coffee, or just the wastewater from the dishwasher?), possibly queue to get on a hot stuffy bus to be taken the remote area where the turbo-props are hidden from public gaze, endure an hour or more of tooth-rattling vibration, followed by the frustration of finding the booked hire car is not available, and has been substituted with some tinny contraption resembling a cartoon car with all the power of an asthmatic donkey, through which one has to do battle with heavy traffic on the way to the client all for a two-hour meeting.
Rinse and repeat in reverse on the way home. I know, I've done it hundreds of times!
Thank goodness those days have ended - and I, and my colleagues, hope we never have to endure this utter waste of time again.

The 'glamour' of business travel - nailed it! :ok: