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CNN
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British airline Flybe has “ceased trading” and canceled all scheduled flights, the company and the British Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said on Saturday.
“Flybe, which operated scheduled services to airports from Belfast City, Birmingham and Heathrow. United Kingdom And to Amsterdam and Geneva, trade is suspended,” the CAA wrote in a statement.
As all Flybe flights have been cancelled, we ask passengers planning to fly with this airline not to go to the airport,” Paul Smith, CAA’s director of consumer affairs, was quoted as saying.
In a statement posted on social media, Flybe warned that canceled flights “will not be rescheduled”.
The company has reportedly been placed into administration.
The Exeter-based budget carrier was founded in 1979 and was at one point Europe’s largest independent regional airline, carrying 8 million passengers a year and operating more than 200 routes.
The airline had been struggling even before Saturday’s announcement. Flypay collapsed The outbreak due to the coronavirus pandemic has thrown the entire global aviation industry into crisis. It recovered in 2021 after executives agreed to a deal with Thyme Opco.
