The British regional airline Flybe, which restarted in April last year, has ceased operations again. The British Aviation Authority (CAA) announced all flights had been cancelled.
“We are sorry to report that Flybe has been placed in judicial liquidation,” Flybe wrote on Twitter. The activities have been discontinued, and receivers have been appointed. “All Flybe flights to and from the UK have been cancelled and will not be rescheduled.”
The CAA called on travellers on a Flybe flight not to go to the airport. According to the British public broadcaster BBC, some 2,500 people would fly with Flybe on Saturday, and about 75,000 travellers would be affected by the stoppage of flights.
Flybe only started flying again in April, after it went bankrupt in 2020 amid the corona pandemic, which dealt a heavy blow to the entire aviation sector. Until then, it was the largest regional airline in Europe, with about 2,400 employees.
The relaunch took place on a much smaller scale, with about twenty connections from the English city of Birmingham, the Northern Irish capital of Belfast and London-Heathrow airport. These were mainly flights within the United Kingdom and some to the European mainland. According to the British news channel Sky News, Flybe had about 320 employees.
