Flybe possible Administration

[allymc316]

Just read that Flybe are in crunch talks to secure funding or face administration.

news.sky/story/regional-...lapse-11907407

Hope all works out, for staff. I currently have connecting flights from BHD booked to Orlando this summer. Rumours are that Virgin, Stobart only bought them over to secure the landing slots... time will tell

[itsmeGAV]

Oh gosh, another airlines potentially gone.

Fingers crossed for the 2,000 staff.

[bighal]

Maybe one of the parties in the take over group is getting cold feet or it's part of Virgin's plan to get all of the Flybe slots including the LHR ones on the cheap...

[WhereIBelong]

oh, I hope some sort of workaround can be found.

Living in the South West, with relatives in the Northern Isles, Flybe has been an absolute godsend of an airline. They knit the UK together at a reasonable price - which I guess is part of the problem...

I can get on a plane in Birmingham at lunchtime have one change in Scotland and be in the N Isles at teatime.

If I have to get on a train it takes 14 hours with 3 changes and then an overnight stay before a 2 hour ferry the next day.
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For a simple hop to N Scotland
Birmingham to Inverness...
Flybe 1h 30m Non-stop from £75
KLM 6h 30m+ Connecting from £151
British Airways 9h 15m+ Connecting from £316
Loganair 4h 35m+ Connecting from £379

Train 8hr 39m Connecting £184 (on a train that allows more than 16 minutes transfer time!)

Will be a sad day if they go to the wall, travel to N Scotland will become expensive and time consuming.

[dizzzy]

Fingers crossed for all the staff that a solution is found. My daughter was/is planning on using them for the first time in April to get home from uni rather than having a 7 hour cramped train journey.

[lizzie145]

I hope they can keep going. For connections from South west to up north they are great.
If I could book a through ticket from Exeter to Orlando at a reasonable price I would not hesitate. Could connect to Manchester easily and Gatwick at a push.

[Peko]

If it goes into administration, Virgin cannot just take the slots, it’s a separate business and those are assets which would need to be sold where possible, to pay creditors. There would be nothing to stop Virgin buying them, subject to regulatory approval.

Some of the LHR slots also come with strings attached in that they have to be used for domestic flights under current rules.

[allymc316]

been looking at the flybe twitter, they started responding to customers saying that everything was business as usual.

Now all those tweets have been deleted. Seems something is being hid from the top... Dont know where it would leave me. Booked through virgin hols. Man to MCO connecting to Belfast with Flybe. All one ticket. Do I lose my Orlando flights as well if flybe go under?

Only the initial flight has a flybe flight number, everything else is VS including the return home between MAN and BHD.

[Floridadreams]

I don’t know but I imagine Virgin Holidays would sort alternative flights for you as you booked with them. Fingers crossed for you and anyone else affected 🤞

[anji]

Our son only booked his flights yesterday from Edinburgh to Southampton for February! It's a lifeline for us with him being so far away.

There's talk of the government stepping in as Flybe is so vital to the country. Hope they do, if it comes to it.