Flybe Facts

Question 1

Where are the Flybe headquarters?

Answer 1

Exeter Airport, United Kingdom.

Question 2

When was Flybe founded?

Answer 2

1979 (as Jersey European Airways), then 2002 as Flybe.

Question 3

Who is the Flybe CEO and when was he appointed?

Answer 3

Saad Hammad, August 2013.

Question 4

What is Flybe operating profit (2014 and H1 2015)?

Answer 4

-£35.6m at 2014/2015 (-540%) +£22.9m at H1, 30 September 2015.

Question 5

What is the number of employees at H1 2015?

Answer 5

Around 2000.

Question 6

What is Flybe revenue (2014 and H1 2015)?

Answer 6

£574.18m at 2014/2015 (-7.5%). £339.6m at H1, 30 September 2015.

Question 7

Number of routes Flybe operate at H1 2015?

Answer 7

149 Winter 2015, 62 departure points (34 UK, 28 EU).

Question 8

How many passengers? 2014 and H1 2015?

Answer 8

7.7m at 2014/2015 (0%). 4.5m at H1, 30 September 2015.

Question 9

What % types of pax? (business, VFR and leisure)

Answer 9

(50% business, 25% VFR, 25% leisure).

Question 10

How many bases and where?

Answer 10

10 (Glasgow, Edinburgh, Belfast, Manchester, Birmingham, Southampton, Exeter, Bournemouth, Aberdeen, Cardiff).

Question 11

What type of airline are Flybe?

Answer 11

Flybe is Europe’s largest regional airline.

Question 12

What is Flybe’s main competition (3)

Answer 12

Road, rail and ferry. 80% of Flybe routes 
do not have another airline competing.

Question 13

What is the avergage age or Flybe’s fleet at H1, 2015?

Answer 13

7.3 years.

Question 14

What is Flybe’s load factor at H1, 2015?

Answer 14

5.7ppt increase to a record 75.2%.

Question 15

What is Flybe’s on time performance?

Answer 15

85% within 15 minutes of scheduled arrival time.

Question 16

What happened to Flybe Finland in April 2015?

Answer 16

60% Flybe Finland stake sold to Finnair in April 2015.

Question 17

Who do Flybe Codeshare with (8) and how many interline agreements do they have?

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

What is an interline agreement?

Answer 18

An interline agreement lets one airline sell a ticket on another airline with all or a portion of the trip on the other airline.

Question 19

What are Flybe’s 5 P’s?

Answer 19

People Performance Passion Positivity Playfulness

Question 20

How many Q400’s did Flybe buy as a result of exiting E175 agreement?

Answer 20

Flybe exited, without any penalties, the firm USD892m obligation to buy additional E175 jets from Embraer and secured 24 young, attractively priced turboprop Q400s.

Question 21

What is project blackbird?

Answer 21

Project Blackbird is now complete, with solutions for all 14 surplus E195 jets, including 5 of them being returned.

Question 22

What has Flybe recently suggested with RAF Northolt?

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

What is the relationship between SAS and Flybe?

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

What effect does APD have on Fybe?

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

What is the Flybe fleet?

Answer 25

Flybe UK

Aircraft in service

Current Orders

Embraer E195

9

0

Embraer E175

11

4

Bombardier Q400

49

20 (Republic)

ATR 72-600

1

3

Question 26

What are the three type of tickes Flybe offer and how do they vary?

Answer 26

See attached