flybe

14 bases in the UK

Flybe is a British airline based at Exeter.

• 3.1 Former aircraft types

History

The airline was originally founded on 1 November 1979 under the name Jersey European Airways. In 1983 she was acquired by Walter Steel Group, which also operated the airline Spacegrand Aviation. The two airlines were initially operated separately but then moved in 1985 together in the Jersey European Airways.

In 2000, the airline was eventually renamed British European Airways and on 18 July 2002 in flybe, where the "be " stands for British European.

In November 2006, the company announced that it would take over the regional airline BA Connect from British Airways. This acquisition was completed on 5 March 2007. At the same time took over British Airways accounted for 15 % of Flybe. Other portions have the Rosedale Aviation Holdings ( 69%) and their own employees (16 %). Through the acquisition of BA Connect, Flybe has become the largest European regional airline.

Flybe announced on 14 January 2008 that in 2008 Loganair will market its 55 routes in Scotland as Flybe under a franchise agreement with effect from 26 October. The first plane ( Official Registration: G- LGNK ) has already been repainted in early April 2008 and stationed at the airport of Dundee.

In March 2008, Flybe hit the headlines, when the airline for their line haul Norwich - Dublin remained below the turn to the airport from Norwich contractually guaranteed passenger numbers. Shortly before the deadline, a penalty in the amount of 380,000 pounds threatened (about 480,000 euros ), Flybe said to have sought an artist booking portal on the Internet for paid extras who against payment in Norwich climb a machine to Dublin and from Dublin immediately back to Norwich fly. In addition, Flybe offered " to celebrate the successful track " free flights to and instructed flight attendants to put in an emergency as passengers. In this way the requirements were met in the short term, however, the airport of Norwich said after learning of the allegations, recognize only paying passengers. Flybe denies having used an actor.

In August 2010 it was announced that Flybe will take over some regional services of the Finnair to Helsinki and within the framework of cooperation. A joint venture with Finnair was founded on the basis of Finncomm Airlines a new subsidiary called Flybe Nordic under On July 1, 2011.

In November 2013 Flybe give notice to close six of its 14 British bases and dismiss the personnel stationed there. A total of cost-cutting 500 jobs eliminated. A little later the cancellation of 24 routes including Southampton Hanover was announced.

In February 2014 it was announced that Flybe all 14 of its Embraer 195 Retire successively until the end of the summer timetable. Flybe was with delivery from September 2006 launch customer of this type.

Destinations

Flybe operates from their bases from a dense network of connections within the UK as well as to cities and holiday destinations in Central and Southern Europe. In cooperation with Flybe Nordic Scandinavia is operated. Number of scheduled destinations include Birmingham, Inverness, Paris, Stockholm and Alicante.

Are destinations in Germany with Stand December 2013 Stuttgart ( from Birmingham) and Dusseldorf ( from Exeter, Birmingham and Manchester ) and Hanover ( from Birmingham and Manchester ). As of April 2014 also Cologne / Bonn will be joined once daily with Birmingham. In Austria Salzburg is served ( from Exeter and Southampton ), Switzerland Geneva ( from Exeter, Inverness, Cardiff, Southampton, Manchester and Jersey and the Isle of Man).

Code Sharing

Flybe also maintains code-share agreements with Air France on numerous routes between Britain and France, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines on flights to and from Amsterdam with British Airways on some domestic routes as well as Etihad Airways Shuttle flights mainly to and from Amsterdam and Birmingham.

Fleet

As of July 2013, the fleet of 70 aircraft from Flybe is with an average age of 5.4 years:

Former aircraft types

In the past, Flybe also operated airplanes of type BAC 1-11, BAe 146, Bombardier CRJ 200 and Dash 8-300, de Havilland Canada DHC -6, Embraer EMB 110 and ERJ 145, Fokker F-27, Hawker Siddeley HS 748, Short 360 and leased Boeing 737-300.