Posted on 03/04/2020 10:35:38 PM PST by rdl6989
LONDON (AP) — The struggling British airline Flybe has collapsed, leaving passengers stranded and told to find their own way home.
UK Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement Thursday that financially troubled Flybe had entered administration. It said, “All Flybe flights are cancelled. Please do not go to the airport as your Flybe flight will not be operating.”
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Good time to get out of the flying business.
Flybe has been in trouble for a long time. My wife used to fly them to visit her family in England but they stopped going to Norwich airport last October. Nobody is surprised.
“” Please do not go to the airport as your Flybe flight will not be operating.””
No ‘maybe’ about it!
“Good time to get out of the flying business.”
The ones that don’t get bailed out will, no doubt, follow that policy. Cruise line companies are likely figuring out now that their number is also up...but no bailouts. All the suits there are simply trying to figure out the most lucrative exit strategy (i.e., how to get the most cash out of their companies without triggering the SEC).
Good time was three to two months ago.
Some months ago was good for collecting last profits.
Should have known it was a Flybe night airline.
Good one.
So their one plane collapsed for a lack of maintenance. Get the people cabs.
And the cruise ship bidness.
That’s utter BS. They needed to rebook their passengers with returning flights on another airline and not leave them stranded for paid services not rendered.
Next airline to go under? If I got into the airline business, I’d make it like how airlines did in the 1970s. Meals, nice pillows and stewardesses. DeplorableAmerican Airlines will be colorful (like Braniff was).
FlybeNight Airlines... Funny
This is going to get messy.
Yep. One of the biggest regional airlines in Europe.
I am sure they looked around and said, “F it”
Can't remember the name of the discount airline which collapsed in the summer of 2006, but I sure remember the circumstances.
My eldest daughter had suffered a double whammy and wanted to come home. Her boyfriend dumped her because she wanted to save her goods for marriage and he thought that was an old fashioned attitude. Two days later, the rental car agency where she was working fired her because she wasn't good at selling that rip-off supplemental insurance.
Needless to say, Dad was proud of her on both counts and scrambled to find an inexpensive airline ticket with three kids in college.
The only thing available on such short notice on a budget was one of those discount airlines. As the plane was about to land in Pittsburgh, the pilot announced that the airline was filing for bankruptcy and suspending operations. Anyone with a return ticket was invited to trade it in for a $50 voucher with Delta or USAir, who had both agreed to honor such exchanges for the next 30 days or so.
Fortunately, my daughter had only a one way ticket as her plans the week before was work, attend the local community college and maybe get married. The last few days had jettisoned those plans.
Five years later, she had finished college, was gainfully employed in her chosen profession and found a decent guy worthy of her.
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