Flybe in trouble?

[hatch4england]

In the last month I have flown with Flybe (to Nice) and Easyjet (Portugal and bank).

Flybe's load factors were about 50%, Easyjet's about 85-90%. Not good.

 

[older-codger]

In the last month I have flown with Flybe (to Nice) and Easyjet (Portugal and bank).

Flybe's load factors were about 50%, Easyjet's about 85-90%. Not good.

That would depend on what load factor the fares are based on. Flybe fares are more expensive than Easyjet generally. I regularly fly Flybe to Belfast with far higher load factor than 50% and flew with Easyjet last weekend to Geneva with similar loading to my last Belfast trip

 

[EGTE]

Older-codger is right. Load factor on a flight is not overly relevant. The "Yield" i.e how much money an airline has taken in fares for a particular flight is more important. I understand that break-even on a 78-seat Bombardier Dash-8Q-400 as flown by Flybe is approx 30 passengers - depending on the fares paid. See the manufacturers bumpf here http://www2.bombardier.com/en/3_0/3_8/BCAU/pdf/RU_Jun03_2.pdf
Flybe are currently restructuring in order to return to profitability so expect them to be around for a long time yet.

 

[spanky]

Posted a loss of £40.6m. According to the FT, a seven fold increase.

 

[ECFC Music]

Does anybody know what the Flybe sponsorship means in value terms to City ? One other point is the excessive passenger tax which seems to affect Flybe more than other budget airlines due to it's greater reliance on UK internal flights.

 

[hatch4england]

More worrying for ECFC is that their strategy now involves focussing on core cities - none of which is Exeter...

 

[PeteUSA]

Whats a core city?

 

[Grecian2K]

Whats a core city?

'The Big Apple'?

 

[FAN-TATIC]

More worrying for ECFC is that their strategy now involves focussing on core cities - none of which is Exeter...

But, their maintenance centre and pilot training centre (for all pilots not just Flybe's) are based in Exeter........

 

[hatch4england]

Yes, but I want them to continue flying to Nice. They have already axed Leeds.
BTW had the longest wait for security in my life last time I flew out of Exeter (more than an hour), then a lovely chat with the most officious policeman at the police desk ever... I do fly quite a lot, and it has really put me off Exeter airport, much as I like FlyBe.