All staff at Flybe's main airport base have been made redundant after the airline collapsed.
The regional airline has fallen into administration again. The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) confirmed yesterday (January 28) that Flybe had ceased trading and all its scheduled flights had been cancelled with immediate effect.
Flybe was once the largest independent regional airline in Europe and scheduled regular flights between Liverpool and Belfast until four years ago. However, the airline went into administration in 2020 with the loss of 2,400 jobs and its revival has come to a swift end.
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The troubled airline operated services between Manchester and Newquay and four services per day to Belfast. Yesterday the Manchester arrivals and departures boards showed four Flybe services, to and from Newquay and Belfast City Airport, were cancelled.
David Pike and Mike Pink have been appointed joint administrators and have confirmed that 99 workers at Flybe's Birmingham Airport base and 34 staff at its headquarters in the city have been made redundant, reports BirminghamLive.
Ryanair has offered a lifeline to staff who have lost their jobs at Flybe. Shortly after the news broke, airline Ryanair set up a fast track recruitment process for Flybe employees and added it was holding a recruitment event for those staff members at Birmingham Airport on Thursday, February 2.
A message from Ryanair on a dedicated online page for Flybe staff reads: "For all Flybe staff affected by the recent announcement, the Ryanair Group have set up a fast track recruitment process for Flybe Employees and have positions for all of you across all areas of our business including flight crew, cabin crew, engineers, ground staff and office staff. We will endeavour to get you back into employment as soon as possible.
"If you are a Flybe employee, send us your CV with your job title in the ''Headline'' section and we will fast track your application. We are sure this is a difficult time for you and your families but we are here to help you get back into employment very quickly."
Originally based at Exeter in Devon, Flybe started up again from Birmingham Airport after it was bought out of administration in 2021. The airline first collapsed in 2019 with the loss of 2,000 jobs.
Now the airline has collapsed again. It comes less than a year after a restored Flybe's first flights left Birmingham, in April 2022.
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