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About Flybe

Flybe is a British low-cost regional airline based in Exeter, and the largest regional airline based in Europe. 

 

Flybe operates more flights from Birmingham, Southampton, Belfast City, Norwich, Exeter, Jersey and Guernsey than any other carrier. The airline also has more flights between the UK and France than any other carrier.

 

Flybe has codeshare agreements with BA, Air France, Etihad, KLM, Finnair, Aer Lingus, Cathay Pacific, Emirates and has three franchise partners, Loganair, Stobart Air and Blue Islands making it the only UK airline brand with 72% coverage of reporting airports.

 

The airline was launched in 1979 as Jersey European Airways following the merger of Intra Airways and Express Air Services. 

 

Flybe has a globally recognised Training Academy in Exeter with flight deck and cabin crew simulator facilities with 26 classrooms. 

 

Flybe's fleet consists of ATR 72s, Bombardier Dash 8, Embraer E-175 and Embraer E-195. 

 

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Frequent Flyer Program

Flybe operates a frequent flyer program called Spend&Fly to reward regular passengers. 

 

Spend&Fly is the new way to earn flights with your spend and claim rewards. 

 

Flybe employs allocated seating on all flights and passengers have the option to choose a seat online in advance. 

 

Economy Plus ticket holders receive a complimentary drink and snack, access to Flybe Executive Lounges, free prebooked seating and priority check-in.

 

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Baggage

The amount of hold luggage that Flybe offers you is dependent upon the fare class selected. 

Just Fly class - no hold luggage is included in the price of the ticket

Get More class -  1 item of hold luggage of up to 20kg is entitled 

All In class - 2 items of hold luggage of up to 40 kg is entitled. 

 

Cabin baggage on flights operated by Flybe are allowed up to 10kg, flights by Stobart Air are allowed up to 7kg and Loganair operated flights are allowed 6kg.

 

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News

20th June 2018

Flybe fly direct service between Doncaster and Belfast

Flybe has announced flights for a direct service between Doncaster Sheffield Airport (DSA) and George Best Belfast City Airport (BSD). Flybe will operate the service five times a week on a flight that is expected to take fifty minutes from take off to landing. 

 

Aviation developmental director at Sheffield Airport, Chris Harcombe, stated that Belfast City Airport is very happy to welcome the new route connecting Belfast to Doncaster. He added that the new route from Flybe will give passengers more options from Doncaster and that people have been asking for a service to Northern Island's capital for a long time.

 

23rd May 2018

Flybe ask Deloitte to step down as auditor

One of the "big 4" accountants, Deloitte, has been asked to step down as auditor by the UK airline Flybe. Flybe will now be in the market for a new auditor to compensate for this loss of the accountant they have worked with for over a decade. The turbulent marketplace has made for an exciting year for Flybe bookings and shares as both have peaked and troughed, but the airline hop that a shakeup in their financial department will secure Flybe's future. 

 

1st February 2018 

Virgin Atlantic and Flybe extend codeshare deal

Flybe and Virgin Atlantic have agreed to extend their codeshare deal to Scotland. Scotland now have more access to the USA and Caribbean than ever before, thanks to the increased codeshare agreement. This includes Flybe's Manchester - Glasgow route, opening up all of Virgin Atlantic's flights from the UK's main northern hub. One boarding pass and one checked bag means that checking out the Grand Canyon and beach bumming in Barbados are infinitely more possible for Flybe customers in Scotland. 

 

Virgin Atlantic fly to seven destinations from Manchester, including Atlanta, Barbados, Boston, Las Vegas, NYC, Orlando and San Francisco. Roy Kinnear, Flybe chief commercial officer commented: “We are delighted that this latest extension of our valued codeshare partnership with Virgin will bring even more of the world closer to Scotland travellers. “It gives both airlines increased network reach and reinforces our commitment to provide our customers with convenient seamless ‘One Stop to the World’ connections from their local airport.” 

 

Last year, Virgin Atlantic announced that its Flybe partnership would also operate between Heathrow and Edinburgh and Aberdeen, allowing travellers access to the airline’s Heathrow routes and cementing its commitment to Scottish customers.

 

21st September 2017

Airlines Flybe and Eastern Airways agree to continue Norwich franchise

Flybe has agreed to continue its franchise deal with a fellow regional airline to provide flights from Norwich to Aberdeen. From October 29 passengers with Eastern Airways service to Scotland will be able to buy tickets through the Flybe website with the new contract seeing the flights given a BE flight code – meaning fliers will be able to go on to other Flybe destinations with one ticket.

 

Eastern Airways provides up to three flights each weekday for Flybe, plus a Sunday service from Norwich to Aberdeen, connecting with onward services to destinations including Stornoway, Wick John O’Groats, Stavanger and Bergen.

 

Mathew Herzberg, Eastern Airways head of commercial, said: “The franchise partnership will help to broaden the sales distribution of our route network through the Flybe brand and reach a wider audience of customers who are new to the Eastern Airways operated services.”

 

April 2016

Flybe announced it was increasing Belfast City flights from Leeds Bradford Airport with up to five flights a day

Flybe, Europe's largest regional airline, has increased its 2016 summer schedule from Leeds Bradford Airport offering an additional daily weekday service to Belfast City.

 

 

March 2017

 

Flybe launched Heathrow flights as new Edinburgh and Aberdeen routes take off

It is the first domestic carrier to begin operating at the UK's hub since 2013 and follows Heathrow's introduction of a £10 reduction in domestic passenger charges in January as it seeks to boost domestic connections at the airport. The new routes will use landing slots that became available thanks to the requirement set by the European Commission, following the acquisition of BMI by International Consolidated Airlines Group (IAG).

 

 

May 2017

Flybe sought to further tackle its overcapacity issues with an agreement to lease two aircraft to Stobart Air

The Exeter-based airline said two of its Embraer E195 aircraft were now under a combined commercial agreement for up to 20 months. This will see the two Southend Airport-based planes operated by Flybe on behalf of Stobart under a crewed lease arrangement with Stobart operating the aircraft itself no later than January 1 next year. The planes will continue using Flybe’s branding throughout the agreement.

 

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ATR 72-600

 

Embraer E-195

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bombardier Dash 8 Q400

 

 

 

 

 

Embraer E-175

 

 

 

 

Birmingham Airport

HUB Airport

 

Birmingham Airport is an international airport located  east southeast of Birmingham city centre, at Bickenhill in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull and in Birmingham within the West Midlands, England. The airport is a base for Flybe, Monarch, Ryanair, Thomas Cook Airlines and Thomson Airways.The airport offers both domestic flights within the UK, and international flights to destinations in Europe, the Middle East, the Indian subcontinent, North America and the Caribbean. 

 

 

Flybe is Europe’s leading low-cost regional airline with more than 6 million passengers carried on 140 routes, but the key for UK originating passengers is that 83% of its flights are within the UK. They call themselves a non-London centric airline, we call them a National Asset! Flybe absorbs BA connect Flybe operates 41 aircraft and recent network expansion which now covers 65 airports in the UK and Europe, is rapidly consolidating its position as the UK’s favourite regional airline. Flybe operates more flights from Birmingham, Southampton, Belfast City, Norwich, Exeter, Jersey and Guernsey than any other carrier. It also has more flights between the UK and France than any other carrier. Fly from your local airport with Flybe. It’s a great Alternative that starts so close to home. Flybe flights Flybe is a success story that has grown and grown and grown. Started by the man who also owned Blackburn Rovers and still based in the sleepy West Country town of Exeter, this dynamic airline operates those less glamorous routes, which other airlines ignore. If you want to start your journey close to home and get to any of a list of 65 airports stretching from Aberdeen to Toulouse you got to consider flying Flybe. Flybe, pronounced , is a British low-cost regional airline based in Exeter, and the largest regional airline based in Europe.The airline launched in 1979 as Jersey European Airways following the merger of Intra Airways and Express Air Services. Flybe operates more flights from Birmingham, Southampton, Belfast City, Norwich, Exeter, Jersey and Guernsey than any other carrier. It also has more flights between the UK and France than any other carrier. Fly from your local airport with Flybe. It’s a great Alternative that starts so close to home

Latest News:

 

flybe will terminate its only remaining intra-European service with the onset of the Winter 2017/18 season. 
The carrier's daily Hanover-Milan Malpensa service is set to on 28th October 2017. 
The route was launched in 2016 alongside a flight from Hanover to Lyon St. Exupéry which has been discontinued.