Flybe Facts Flashcards
Where are the Flybe headquarters?
Exeter Airport, United Kingdom.
When was Flybe founded?
1979 (as Jersey European Airways), then 2002 as Flybe.
Who is the Flybe CEO and when was he appointed?
Saad Hammad, August 2013.
What is Flybe operating profit (2014 and H1 2015)?
-£35.6m at 2014/2015 (-540%) +£22.9m at H1, 30 September 2015.
What is the number of employees at H1 2015?
Around 2000.
What is Flybe revenue (2014 and H1 2015)?
£574.18m at 2014/2015 (-7.5%). £339.6m at H1, 30 September 2015.
Number of routes Flybe operate at H1 2015?
149 Winter 2015, 62 departure points (34 UK, 28 EU).
How many passengers? 2014 and H1 2015?
7.7m at 2014/2015 (0%). 4.5m at H1, 30 September 2015.
What % types of pax? (business, VFR and leisure)
(50% business, 25% VFR, 25% leisure).
How many bases and where?
10 (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast, Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton, Exeter, Bournemouth, Aberdeen, Cardiff).
What type of airline are Flybe?
Flybe is Europe’s largest regional airline.
What is Flybe’s main competition (3)
Road, rail and ferry. 80% of Flybe routes do not have another airline competing.
What is the avergage age or Flybe’s fleet at H1, 2015?
7.3 years.
What is Flybe’s load factor at H1, 2015?
5.7ppt increase to a record 75.2%.
What is Flybe’s on time performance?
85% within 15 minutes of scheduled arrival time.
What happened to Flybe Finland in April 2015?
60% Flybe Finland stake sold to Finnair in April 2015.
Who do Flybe Codeshare with (8) and how many interline agreements do they have?
British Airways, Etihad Airways, Air France, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Finnair, Aer Lingus, Cathay Pacific Airways and Emirates (in 2015). Flybe also takes part in 17 interline agreements.
What is an interline agreement?
An interline agreement lets one airline sell a ticket on another airline with all or a portion of the trip on the other airline.
What are Flybe’s 5 P’s?
People Performance Passion Positivity Playfulness
How many Q400’s did Flybe buy as a result of exiting E175 agreement?
Flybe exited, without any penalties, the firm USD892m obligation to buy additional E175 jets from Embraer and secured 24 young, attractively priced turboprop Q400s.
What is project blackbird?
Project Blackbird is now complete, with solutions for all 14 surplus E195 jets, including 5 of them being returned.
What has Flybe recently suggested with RAF Northolt?
Flybe has called upon UK government to open up RAF Northolt to boost regional routes. Opening RAF Northolt to a limited number of new Flybe domestic routes, linking underserved regions to London will provide money to RAF and to Treasury via APD.
What is the relationship between SAS and Flybe?
Under a white label agreement with SAS, Flybe will operate four ATR 72-600 aircraft on behalf of SAS for six years with scope for extension and a further four aircraft to be brought into service as required.
What effect does APD have on Fybe?
Air Passenger Duty (APD) is levied disproportionately on regional flights (5 times the tax per mile of long haul). This is exacerbated when a return international flight suffers this charge once, but a domestic one is taxed twice as APD is a UK departure tax.
