Maths seems to be OK, and load factors like these used to be no problem with business fares about a decade ago. When the CRJ was introduced at my then company it reportedly needed 13 seats filled to break even, the other 37 providing profits. Companies happily paid the equivalent of more than 1000 EUR for a return ticket for a 1:15 flight. No carbon tax, less fees (and not to forget lower salaries).

Add higher cost pressure by corporate travel departments and availability of low-fare "next door" with people weighing the inconvenience of a 1-2 hour drive to the airport against a business fare as well as the increase in high-speed rail across Europe and the niche for regionals gets ever smaller. Not many true independent regionals remain and the advantage the UK enjoyed with all the water around making air travel the only option in many cases diminishes as its economic future is clouded over Brexit.

I found the figure of less than 400 staff interesting for an airline this size. Seems rather lean.

BBC lunchtime news illustrating their feature on flyBMI with library shots of a BMI A319.

Bless. :O

About 125. Never stable.

Least it wasn't a DC9!!

Loganair are picking up the ABZ routes to BRS, EBJ & OSL from 4 March. Almost as if the sister company saw it coming….. :O

Do exactly that on Monday. And convince everyone else to do so too. If that next job takes a little too long, the Job Centre will be able to provide that reference that might be very important for your "last X-number of years" reference trail.

A good bunch of pilots and cabin crew there, I hope that you all get new jobs soon enough that you don't need that Job Centre reference to fill the gap. Good luck to all of you.

Mid month almost definitely - I worked for an Airline that went bust i got the pay slip but no money in the bank. I suspect as usual the Pilots and Mx will get gobbled up quickly, for Cabin Crew and Office Staff - not a good time. Best wishes to you all.

Almost definitely mid-month?
Not in the months I worked there. It was the last working day of the month.

The accuracy of the BBC news seems to be getting ever worse. The first few news items about the A380 production coming to an end incuded images of an aircraft that actually had "Airbus A320" emblazoned down the side...

An honest question: Without feeder contracts with one or more majors, can an airline make money with a fleet of EMB-145s? I was once told that they were pretty cheap to operate, but that was many many moons ago.

Same here - I (wrongly) assumed that BMI/flyBMI had both disappeared a good few years ago.

Presumably this failure has to be good news for flybe, at least?

Three FLYBMI aircraft arrived Norwich 16th February for storage.

Cynic, maybe, but you might have just hit the proverbial nail on the head. All seems too convenient.

Ttfn

Brexit will have harmed them more than carbon taxes. I don't know where and how long you have lived on this planet. I can only remember close to half a century and even discounting that as a kid I might have felt the cold a bit more with less fat for insulation, winters were longer and colder 45 years ago. We used to have continuous snow cover around the city for at least a couple of weeks every year, while it all melts away now after a day or two. Ski resorts in the mountains used to have snow without lots of expensive equipment to make it themselves. It's pretty obvious to me that there is global warming.