{"id":93769,"date":"2020-03-05T13:56:40","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T12:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/?p=93769"},"modified":"2023-03-06T15:10:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T14:10:15","slug":"flybe-regional-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/flybe-regional-aircraft","title":{"rendered":"British regional air transport loses Flybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The message from the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) on Twitter on Thursday morning was laconic: \"&nbsp;<em><strong>Flybe<\/strong> has gone into liquidation. All Flybe flights are cancelled. Please do not travel to the airport as your Flybe flight will not be operational. For flights operated by franchise partners, passengers should contact their airline. #Flybe&nbsp;<\/em>\". The end is nigh for Europe's largest regional airline, with Flybe representing more than <strong>30% capacity<\/strong> and nearly <strong>40% frequencies<\/strong> on UK domestic routes in 2018. It carried <strong>eight million passengers<\/strong> annual reports. The liquidation of the company results in <strong>immediate suspension of all lines<\/strong> operated by the carrier, i.e. some 200 routes. The company offered <strong>a dozen lines in France<\/strong> in particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airline was in serious financial difficulty, weakened by competition, the slowdown in the British economy with the <strong>Brexit<\/strong> and the rise in oil prices at the end of last year. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/flybe-faillite-accord-20200115.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Boris Johnson's government promised in January<\/a> to unlock <strong>100 million pounds<\/strong> to help the company avoid bankruptcy. Except that the budget was not due to be released until next week, while losses accelerated due to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/iata-covid-19-aerien-20200220.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">passenger disaffection with the coronavirus crisis<\/a>. Hence the decision by the airline's owners, Connect Airways - a consortium made up of Virgin Atlantic, Stobart Air and hedge fund Cyrus Capital - to wind down Flybe's business, just over a year after buying it. The airline's chief executive, Mark Anderson, said it had been \"&nbsp;<em>unable to overcome major financing problems&nbsp;<\/em>\".<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-varenne-link-block\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/disparition-flybe-20230129.html\/\" data-id=\"141463\">British air transport: Flybe disappears<\/a><\/p><\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>The government is now working on an urgent solution to Flybe's defection. Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the government \"&nbsp;<em>worked urgently&nbsp;<\/em>\"with the airline industry to \"&nbsp;<em>help redistribute key routes to other airlines as soon as possible&nbsp;<\/em>\". Some regions of the UK have been particularly hard hit, such as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.voyages-d-affaires.com\/en\/irlande-du-nord-a-pas-de-geants-20170822.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Northern Ireland<\/a> where at <strong>Belfast<\/strong> In City, Flybe accounted for 70% of traffic, with a very high market share on the Belfast City-Birmingham and Belfast City-Manchester routes. A <strong>Southampton<\/strong>In the United States, this share was as high as 92%, while at <strong>Cardiff<\/strong>In Wales, the capital, this figure was 42% of all capacity offered on domestic routes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the meantime, the government has asked <strong>railway companies<\/strong>These include First Rail (a consortium managing Great Western Railway, South Western Railway, TransPennine Express and Avanti West Coast) to carry Flybe passengers free of charge. EasyJet is also offering reduced fares to passengers.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The drop in air traffic linked to the coronavirus has precipitated the collapse of Flybe, less than two months after the rescue of the carrier announced by the British government. The disappearance leaves a gaping hole in the UK's regional coverage.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":93771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[131,1233,2011],"type-darticle":[],"n_magazine":[],"class_list":["post-93769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerien","tag-compagnies-aeriennes","tag-royaume-uni","tag-faillite","vapo-free"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.9 (Yoast SEO v25.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Le transport a\u00e9rien r\u00e9gional britannique perd Flybe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"La chute du trafic a\u00e9rien li\u00e9e au coronavirus pr\u00e9cipite la chute de Flybe, moins de deux mois apr\u00e8s le sauvetage du transporteur annonc\u00e9 par le gouvernement britannique. 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