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“Flybe, which operated scheduled services from Belfast City, Birmingham and Heathrow to airports across the United Kingdom and to Amsterdam and Geneva, has ceased trading,” the CAA wrote in a statement.
“We urge passengers planning to fly with this airline not to go to the airport as all Flybe flights are canceled,” consumer director for CAA Paul Smith was quoted saying.
In a statement posted to social media Flybe warned that canceled flights “will not be rescheduled.
“The company has been placed into administration, according to the statement.
The Exeter-based budget carrier was founded in 1979 and at one point was Europe’s largest independent regional airline, carrying 8 million passengers a year and operating more than 200 routes.
The airline had been struggling before Saturday’s announcement.
It was rescued in 2021 after administrators agreed on a deal with company Thyme Opco.