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By *ering Sea OP   Man
over a year ago

Penicuik

Guess the govt bail out never arrived.

Flights diverted and grounded.

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By *nd-DCouple
over a year ago

portsmouth

Looks like they’ve gone.

Sad for the staff.

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By *ering Sea OP   Man
over a year ago

Penicuik


"Looks like they’ve gone.

Sad for the staff. "

Indeed and the price hike from other operators

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By *wisted999Man
over a year ago

North Bucks

It’s interesting that they blame the C word and how it’s had such an impact on business in such a short time.

Never used the brand but a real shame. Hope another carrier takes them on

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead

looks like they are awaiting the last flight to land before officially confirming this...

big blow to regional air travel.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Seriously? I have flights booked with them. ;-(

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By *ering Sea OP   Man
over a year ago

Penicuik

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By *ering Sea OP   Man
over a year ago

Penicuik


"Seriously? I have flights booked with them. ;-("

Mechanics collecting their tools on the news there. Hastily !

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By *hongguyMan
over a year ago

heckmondwike

blame corona what a fucking joke shit airline greedy bastard owners simple Brexit got blamed for everything else as the world collapsed as it fuck grow a pair of balls you idiots its called being scammed by the money men its called fucking life nothing is free apart from death that's guaranteed at some point live your life don't wait for these cunts to live it for you

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By *eeBee67Man
over a year ago

Masked and Distant

Flown with them a few times, regional flights are using old knackered planes bought 2nd hand from other companies.

Real shame though as they provide a much needed service, flights were always full.

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By *ver 54Man
over a year ago

chester

Best wishes to any Flybe staff on here. Not nice to be made redundant.Hope staff find new jobs soon

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Feel sorry for all the staff concerned.

However I had tried booking with them a few times Southampton to Aberdeen and the flights every time I looked where ridiculously expensive like £600 return for two adults.

Cheaper to drive to Heathrow pay parking flights with BA and still saved about£300+

I find it incredibly odd that you can easily fly to anywhere in the world but trying to get a direct flight from one end of the country to the other can be amazingly difficult.

Once from Southampton to Aberdeen two stops one in Manchester then Amsterdam!!!!

Wtf

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By *ylvie 888Woman
over a year ago

Cleethorpes


"Seriously? I have flights booked with them. ;-("

Yep. My friend just recently got promoted and now he has no job!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Feel sorry for all the staff concerned.

However I had tried booking with them a few times Southampton to Aberdeen and the flights every time I looked where ridiculously expensive like £600 return for two adults.

Cheaper to drive to Heathrow pay parking flights with BA and still saved about£300+

I find it incredibly odd that you can easily fly to anywhere in the world but trying to get a direct flight from one end of the country to the other can be amazingly difficult.

Once from Southampton to Aberdeen two stops one in Manchester then Amsterdam!!!!

Wtf"

I used to fly with them to the Shetland Islands from Manchester for upwards of £600 return. Now it's Logan air and they have the monopoly.

We can all moan about the Irish fecker but his operating business model works and is profitable.

Sad for the employees though.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Bastard firm just cost us £400 in lost flights

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here


"Bastard firm just cost us £400 in lost flights "

Direct booking or via agent?

Credit card used ?

Guessing you’ve already checked

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Bastard firm just cost us £400 in lost flights

Direct booking or via agent?

Credit card used ?

Guessing you’ve already checked "

Booking agent, so far spent 6 seperate hours trying to get through and keep getting cut off. Had to buy new flights for now, nightmare as not ideal flight times.

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By *lorious hole bs16Man
over a year ago

Bristol

Feel sorry for the workers but not Branson etc...Was surprised the tax payer bailed them out quite recently tbh

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here


"Bastard firm just cost us £400 in lost flights

Direct booking or via agent?

Credit card used ?

Guessing you’ve already checked

Booking agent, so far spent 6 seperate hours trying to get through and keep getting cut off. Had to buy new flights for now, nightmare as not ideal flight times. "

You are likely to be in a better position to get money back than those who booked directly with Flybe

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead


"Feel sorry for the workers but not Branson etc...Was surprised the tax payer bailed them out quite recently tbh"

the tax payer never did.... that was part of the issue...

corona was just the last straw... people basically stopped buying tickets for flights so their cashflow ran out....

but flybe has inherant disadvantages ... the weakness of the pound made fuel in effect higher to buy

... the fact that on domestic journies in effect that had to pay air passenger duty on both ends.... 26 pounds each end before you even think about anything else.....

the business model wasn't great

and so on and so on......

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago


"Bastard firm just cost us £400 in lost flights

Direct booking or via agent?

Credit card used ?

Guessing you’ve already checked

Booking agent, so far spent 6 seperate hours trying to get through and keep getting cut off. Had to buy new flights for now, nightmare as not ideal flight times.

You are likely to be in a better position to get money back than those who booked directly with Flybe "

Yeah, just a nightmare day sorting it all out for us all

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By *olgateMan
over a year ago

on the road to nowhere in particular

Several regional airports including Cardiff are now in trouble as FLYBE are a large proportion of their business

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By *abioMan
over a year ago

Newcastle and Gateshead


"Several regional airports including Cardiff are now in trouble as FLYBE are a large proportion of their business "

not the only one....i know belfast city and southampton are another 2 of the airports where 80% of their flights were flybe regional flights....

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By *onghMan
over a year ago

cardiff

I think Cardiff airport is still state owned. It will be interesting to see what action they take to fill the Flybe gap.

Incidentally, I'm one of those caught up in this as I'd booked flights to Dublin in July.

Had a text from Barclaycard this afternoon acknowledging I'd bought tickets with my card and directing me to their website so I'm assuming I might get my money back. That being the case, I wonder why they don't just automatically refund?

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Guy on radio this morning was saying that Flybe business model was absolutely pants overinvestment in plane's and no flights for them.

Is there not justification for a government owned airline that doesn't charge itself tax etc to run flights within the UK to allow easy movement particularly people who live on islands like Shetland etc..

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