The new Cyrus Capital owned airline launching under the name Flybe is targeting a Spring launch for flights within the UK and Europe. According to sources close to the airline, March is the anticipated launch month although there is apparently still a lot of work to do before it can [read more]
The first Bombardier Dash 8 aircraft for the new incarnation of Flybe has today arrived at Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) ahead of plans to begin commercial flights. Birmingham Airport was announced as the new headquarters and base of the airline, which bought the rights to the Flybe name, last week. The [read more]
Flybe Ltd, the operating company bringing back the Flybe name to the skies, has taken yet another step closer to its return to flying by announcing its first base and company headquarters will be at Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB). Flybe ceased operations in 2020 after several ill-fated rescue attempts but in [read more]
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has awarded a three-year contract to Spirit Aerosystems to build an unmanned fighter code named “Loyal Wingman” worth £30m. The contract will see a prototype for the unmanned aircraft designed and built at the former Bombardier site in Belfast, Northern Ireland and will support 100 [read more]
Thyme OpCo LTD, the operating company behind the attempted resurrection of Flybe, has officially put a Bombardier Dash 8-Q400 on the UK register. According to the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) G-INFO database, the 22-year old former Austrian Airlines aircraft is now registered as G-CLXC having been previously registered as OE-LGA. [read more]
Members of the public in Essex, Hertfordshire, Cambridgeshire and London have reported hearing a sonic boom as RAF Typhoon aircraft raced to intercept a private jet over London. Two Eurofighter Typhon aircraft launched from RAF Coningsby earlier today under the UK’s Quick Reaction Alert (QRA) defence system in order to [read more]
News that Thyme Opco had purchased what was left of Flybe on Monday sent aviation commentators into overdrive, largely as it was so out of the blue. Ok, so there have been murmurings of a comeback for some time but they have just remained rumours, until now. Flybe’s administrators EY [read more]
Dublin, Ireland based Aviation maintenance company, Dublin Aerospace Group, has launched Exeter Aerospace in the former Flybe Maintenance Facility at Exeter Airport. The group already provides maintenance for Boeing 737 and Airbus A320 & A330 families at its site in Ireland but now aims to complement that with regional jet [read more]
Announcements by the UK’s largest budget airline Easyjet and European planemaker Airbus over the last 24 hours have meant that the UK aviation industry has 5,700 more jobs at risk. It made Tuesday 30th June the single worst day for job loss announcements since British Airways put 12,000 jobs at [read more]
CCTV images that have been been widely shared show the moment that ground staff lose control a former Flybe Dash 8 at Aberdeen Airport last tuesday. The aircraft apparently had no braking ability and the video shows ground staff desperately trying to stop the aircraft rolling forward before it collides [read more]
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