Flybe – some interesting hard numbers on what has been lost

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• Peter K says:

  5 Mar5 March 18:25

  Lots of info on what capacity they offered. Not much on how many seats were actually bought/filled.

  • Mark says:

    6 Mar6 March 16:44

    They seem to misunderstand the meaning of “busiest “.

• Alex says:

  5 Mar5 March 18:27

  Interesting numbers here. It would also be interesting to see what share of airport rotations and passenger numbers Flybe had. BHD and SOU spring to mind as clear losers but they can’t be the only ones.

• Chris L says:

  5 Mar5 March 19:17

  Those aren’t really monopoly routes. EasyJet fly from Belfast Int (rather than City) to both Birmingham and Manchester, and they now serve Birmingham – Edinburgh. The real losers here are the likes of Exeter and Southampton – major cities whose airports are suddenly ghost towns.

  • Stu N says:

    5 Mar5 March 20:36

    Edinburgh/ Glasgow to Birmingham don’t start until summer timetable at end of month and drop from 4/5/6x daily to 2x daily.

    • David D says:

      6 Mar6 March 07:52

      Going from a 78 seater DH4 to a 156 seater A319 would make it necessary to cut the number of frequencies to those provided by EasyJet. I could not see them doubling demand on the same frequency which means they still provide at least the same number of seats per day based on the 4x frequency. If it is the A320 then it would be 180 or 186 seats so almost 5x frequency equivalent.

• JRC says:

  5 Mar5 March 19:20

  Interesting but numbers don’t add up unfortunately. 2374 per week x 4.33 = 10,287 flights per month. But somehow 10,543 flights per month are monopoly which is > 100% of their monthly flights… suggest large pinch of salt with this data and article. I struggle to understand how there is demand for 5 flights per day between Birmingham and Belfast.

  • JG says:

    5 Mar5 March 20:25

    Well Birmingham has a large catchment and passengers from NI are still waiting for the bridge to Scotland… meanwhile on EZY BFS-BHX seats selling for over £200 next week, expect they will be adding more flights over the next month or two…

    • Michael says:

      6 Mar6 March 08:37

      And both Birmingham and Manchester acted as connecting hubs for Flybe which can be surprisingly useful from Belfast.

  • pauldb says:

    5 Mar5 March 23:01

    Must have an unusual definition of hub too.

    • JamesLHR says:

      6 Mar6 March 12:15

      Any airport which has connecting through ticketed flights can be defined as a hub academically.

      They aren’t just mega hubs like CDG, FRA or AMS.

• MT says:

  5 Mar5 March 19:53

  Its the LCY flights that I wonder if will get picked up or lost that I find most interesting! It seemed from what you heard that they were some of the more profit making routes, but equally you would assume if they had been BA would have been competing on those routes!

• RussellH says:

  6 Mar6 March 11:33

  Sorry, first line of quote got lost…

  “After the collapse of Flybe, many stranded customers will have to make their own alternative travel arrangements and others will be uncertain about whether they’ll be able to get money back for travel booked through for the airline. Jan Carton, our Senior Consumer Expert, warned Flybe customers to be wary of people getting in touch offering to act for you to recover your money. It may be a fraudster trying to take advantage of the situation.”

  • Princess says:

    6 Mar6 March 17:00

    sorry if it has been asked before:
    parents of one my colleague have had to rebook flight to come back from Amsterdam. (they are still there untill tomorrow)
    Anything I can suggest them to recover the lost money?

    • Princess says:

      6 Mar6 March 21:21

      Thanks I’ll check!

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