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On 5 March 2020, the UK’s largest regional airline collapsed. Flybe was mired in debt. A rescue consortium led by Virgin Atlantic,

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Having pumped in £100m and seen it disappear, concluded there was no hope of turning the airline around and pulled the plug.

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Despite collapsing in March 2020, what was formerly the UK’s largest regional airline, Flybe, will be recommencing flights from 13 April 2022.

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The first service will fly from Birmingham to Belfast, with 22 more routes planned. So where will the revamped and revived carrier be flying?

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A significant point about two of these routes, Leeds Bradford-Heathrow and Amsterdam-East Midlands, is that Flybe does not have aircraft or crew based at any of those airports.

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To serve them, the carrier will fly a so-called W-pattern. For example, it will fly Birmingham-Amsterdam-East Midlands-Amsterdam-Birmingham.

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Typically £30 one-way on most routes, or £50 from much higher-cost London Heathrow. The French routes are far more expensive: Southampton-Avignon on 30 July is £157.

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