Flybe, another British budget airline, are trying to avoid a Ryanair reputation by using the remoteness of their airports as a selling point and using the slogan "See the real Europe"!
Posted by
Northamptonshire, England
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@Philip, do you think that Flybe will still be flying as Flybe this time next year?
Posted by
San Francisco Bay Area
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When life hands you a lemon, market it as lemonade ??
Posted by
Lakewood, Colorado
19274 posts
In Germany, Düsseldorf, Köln, Münster, Hamburg, Hannover, Berlin, Stuttgart, Nürnberg, and Munich (only Frankfurt is missing). Hardly what I would call remote. Nothing likeRyanAir's Weeze, Hahn, and Memmingenberg. I think every Flybe airport (x Münster, Tegel) has a rail connection.
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Rick Steves' Europe
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For flights to/from UK cities other than London, it could provide useful options. Good news is that it is reflected on a search at www.skyscanner.com. If you're open to alternate airports, one way to use Skyscanner is to open up the search range, such as from Amsterdam to "UK."
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Colorado Mountains, USA
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We flew flybe to Shetland and from Orkney this past summer, and the flights were quick, the planes tidy, and the staff professional and friendly. Going thru Security at the Kirkwall airport was actually pleasant, unlike experiences at London Heathrow or pretty much anywhere in the USA. May "Scotland's Airline" fly long and proud!
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Colorado Mountains, USA
7937 posts
@Keith- on a banner at the Kirkwall airport for flybe, they either proclaimed to be "Scotland's Airline" or "The Airline of Scotland," not positive now of the wording, but I think it was the former. Maybe Loganair was behind all that.
Either way, Aeroflot is the true airline with a Rick Steves approach, since they once had everyone exit thru the back door!
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OP
London, United Kingdom
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Nigel, I don't know what you're getting at. Are they in trouble?
Posted by
Northamptonshire, England
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Philip,
there have been a number of whispers in the City, and stories in the papers.
Last year big boardroom changes and plunging share prices. This year, disruption and big losses, such as a headline from a few weeks ago which sticks in my mind, "12 Nov 2014 - THE turnaround at short-haul airline Flybe faltered today as it reported a first half-loss of £15.4 million, compared with a pre-tax profit of £13.8 previously."
That's why I asked ... We will wait and see...
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Vernon, Canada
32352 posts
Hopefully FlyBe doesn't go bankrupt and cease operations. I believe they provide the only air service to the outer Hebrides, such as the Isle of Barra, so that would be a hardship for the people living there. I don't know how things work in Scotland, but if the same thing happened here, the government would probably step in and sort things out as it could be considered an "essential service"