Flybe administration: Scramble to change plans after airline ceases trading

For Sophie Levy, a relaxing interruption to sojourn household successful Windsor was scuppered erstwhile Flybe declared connected Saturday that it was cancelling each flights.

The hose said it had ceased trading, with 277 retired of 321 unit being made redundant.

Sophie is 1 of 2,500 radical who were forced to alteration their Saturday question plans past minute.

She flew with Flybe connected Friday from Newquay successful Cornwall to Heathrow, with a instrumentality formation scheduled for Sunday.

"I volition present beryllium getting a bid astatine abbreviated announcement that volition enactment maine retired of pocket," she told BBC News.

"My relaxing play turned retired to beryllium manic."

Sophie is successful the Royal Navy, based astatine RNAS Culdrose successful Cornwall, and said she was nether unit to instrumentality to her basal successful clip for a promotional course.

The hose has cancelled each planned flights to and from the UK aft going into medication - affecting 75,000 passengers successful total.

Flybe said it would not beryllium capable to assistance passengers put alternate flights.

Many customers person said they lone recovered retired astir the cancellations portion travelling to the airport.

Freddy McBride, 61, from Balham successful southbound London, was owed to alert with his woman from Heathrow to Belfast connected Saturday greeting but had to rebook with Aer Lingus.

He said helium got up astatine the "crack of dawn" trying to cheque in, arsenic helium had been incapable to bash truthful the nighttime before.

"I near my woman to bash it portion I got the train," which was earlier 07:00 GMT, helium said.

"I got to Hatton Central [station] and I checked my email and it says they've gone into administration. It's conscionable outrageous."

Natalie Punshon from Darlington was successful Belfast aft her Sunday Flybe formation backmost to Newcastle was cancelled.

"This greeting I woke up to 2 emails, 1 saying the formation was cancelled and different that I could cheque successful for the flight," she said.

She said she had booked a formation backmost with Easyjet, but that she was present £100 retired of pocket.

At 03:07 GMT helium received an email from Flybe stating that the institution had gone into administration, helium said. The email advised passengers not to question to the airport.

Mr Donnelly, a schoolhouse main and governmental commentator, was connected his mode to the airdrome erstwhile helium saw the email.

He was capable to publication an alternate formation from Belfast to Gatwick, but doing truthful astatine abbreviated announcement was inconvenient, helium said.

He added that helium had booked bid tickets from Heathrow into cardinal London for £50 - which helium present did not need.

Neil Baker from Teeside made a Flybe booking connected Friday done a third-party website. He bought tickets for his mother, who is 87, and her person to question during the May slope holiday, helium said.

"I received an email that determination would beryllium a hold successful getting a booking confirmation which has happened to maine before," helium said.

"Now I perceive that Flybe has gone into administration, I don't cognize what has happened to the flights."

He said helium is present waiting to perceive from the third-party website to find retired if his booking went through.

Flybe's head confirmed 277 of its 321 unit were being made redundant.

Financial advisory steadfast Interpath said the remainder of the company's unit would beryllium retained.

Until the astir caller collapse, Flybe operated flights connected 21 routes from Belfast City, Birmingham, and Heathrow to airports crossed the UK arsenic good arsenic to Amsterdam and Geneva.

A connection published connected the Flybe website aboriginal connected Saturday said the High Court had appointed associated administrators for Flybe Limited.

It added that anyone who had booked a formation with the hose via an intermediary should interaction that intermediary directly.

The authorities said its "immediate priority" would beryllium to enactment anyone trying to get location and Flybe unit who person mislaid their jobs.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), the assemblage which overseas aerial question successful the UK, has issued proposal to customers:

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