FLYBE has announced a series of flight cancellations and timetable reductions amid aircraft supply difficulties.
The company said it is to operate summer routes at a reduced frequency between Belfast City and Edinburgh and Glasgow and Birmingham to Edinburgh and Glasgow.
It has axed summer routes from Belfast City to Aberdeen and Inverness and Birmingham to Aberdeen.
Dave Pflieger, Flybe chief executive, said in a message to travellers: “Due to late aircraft deliveries, we must reduce our planned flight schedule from 28 July to 29 October 2022.
“This is not a decision we’ve have taken lightly, and as you would expect we are in daily conversations with all involved to see if anything might change that would allow us to resume our original plans at an earlier date. It is essential that we take action now to ensure you have enough time to change your travel plans, be reaccommodated on a different flight or, if that is not desired, obtain a full refund.
“Firstly, please accept my unreserved apologies for the rescheduling or cancellation of your flight. You’ll be wondering, I’m sure, why this has happened, so please let me try and explain.
“As you may know, it’s been 83 days since our first Flybe flight took to the skies from Birmingham and Belfast, and today we now fly customers to destinations from East Midlands, Leeds-Bradford, Glasgow, Edinburgh, London-Heathrow, and Amsterdam.
“We were planning to increase flights to existing cities and new destinations such as Aberdeen, Inverness, Newcastle, and Southampton. However, the two aircraft leasing companies who were contracted to provide our additional airplanes have now told us that they will be unable to fulfil their commitments until after the summer.”
In 2020 joint administrators of Flybe agreed to the sale of Flybe’s business and assets, including the brand, intellectual property, stock and equipment to Thyme Opco Limited, a company affiliated with investment adviser Cyrus Capital, and operates as Flybe Limited.
Renewco renewable power expands into US solar
A SCOTTISH renewable power company has moved to expand in the United States with the acquisition of solar development pipeline.
Renewco Power said the 1.5GW pipeline of early-stage utility-scale solar projects is also alongside 500MW of battery storage projects from Beaufort Rosemary, an experienced Virginia-based developer.
Entrepreneurial student set to open new food business
A STUDENT who plans to launch a new food business has been announced as the inaugural winner of Edinburgh Napier University’s Appin Entrepreneurship Award.
Student Kael Begbie won the accolade and £2,000 after coming out ahead in the competition held at the university’s Bright Red Triangle.
Sign up: You can now get the briefing sent direct to your email inbox twice-daily, and Business Week for the seven-day round-up on Sunday 👇
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules here