Flybe.com

Advantages: Much cheaper than other airlines
Disadvantages: None

Late last year I received an email stating that Flybe were introducing a new service from Southampton to Newcastle and I just literally jumped for joy. You see I had been paying £154 to travel this route with Eastern Airways and that was the cheapest price I could get! So, as far as I was concerned, competition on this route would be good – especially for the customers. I hadn’t actually used Flybe (as far as I can remember anyway) for any travel ...
...of personal experience with the transactions of this airline. So, straightaway, I logged onto their site - http://www1.flybe.com - which is very colourful. Their homepage gives a section with the latest news, for example, “Go ski with flybe” and you just click onto the relevant section and read what they have to offer. Car hire, hotels, parking (saving of up to 50%), insurance, win gift vouchers, 75% off perfume and onboard duty free plus all your ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap, good legroom
Disadvantages: Customer service as always

When my wife's stepdad announced he was getting married again we were both pleased and concerned at the same time. It was not his choice of partner that worried us, more how we were to cover the largish distance between Southampton and Lanark in Scotland for the big day. As Mrs Cad would be 27 weeks pregnant on the date of the wedding and she was having trouble sitting for long periods we had to think through our options carefully. The land route ...
...Bournemouth to Prestwick. So I was given the task of finding an airline that would get us the right side of Hadrian's wall for the following criteria. Not too expensive, an aisle seat for Mrs Cad and airports as close to our start and finish points as possible. After scrubbing out Lyingair and my favourite airline BA as unreliable or too expensive we ended up with Flybe. Booking was completed by me online and was relatively straight forward. It ... Read review

Advantages: Friendly, cheap(ish), many destinations
Disadvantages: Delayed departures on most flights

As a frequent flyer i am constantly looking for bargain flights to my favourite destinations. This time i chose Fly.BE - for the first time. Last week i flew from Glasgow to Salzburg return. I was told that this flight would stop in Birmingham for approx. 3 hours, which was fine with me. My main reason for chosing this airline was, that i didn't have to check in again for the second flight. Me being pregnant and flying alone, i thought it would ...
...cost me approx. £200 pounds return incl. taxes, which is still cheaper than most of the other flights offered to Austria. I booked it over the internet which was swift and convenient. One negative point regarding the price: A week after booking the flight i had to call the customer service centre to change my return date and therefore i was charged an additional £115, which was too pricey for my taste. So off i went to the airport in Glasgow. ... Read review

Advantages: Local departures
Disadvantages: George Best Airport access problems in Belfast

...relaxed and care free! Flybe.com website is simple to navigate and if you have a little notice of your trip fares are incredible, dont leave it to the last week however as there is that "compulsory" inflationary price hike the closer you get to your departure date from your booking date! They have a good inflight magazine (free) although the snacks are pricey, and a variety of business partners offering discounts such as hotels and car hire (avis), ...
...As a budget airline, theis is the best that I have travelled with and is a reasonable attempt at good service given the deficiencies of the alternatives! Please consider not charging extra for luggage and give George Best airport the ditch for Belfast International which is a far superior airport in my opinion. ... Read review

Advantages: Clean aircraft
Disadvantages: Incompetent baggage handling and tracing

Flew with Flybe for the first time at the end of March - NEVER again!!! Arrived at Edinburgh en-route to Manchester. My wife & I changed flights from BA to Flybe. Our bags were checked all the way through and Flybe told us that if there was any problems with our bags they would tannoy us. No such announcements but when we arrived in Manchester our bags hadn't!! Reported missing bags immediately but details couldn't be put on the computer system as ...
...all in the lost bags. 2 days later we arrived in Tunisia with what we were wearing and toothbrushes and toothpaste. Naively expecting our bags at any moment. No such luck! We spent our holiday having to wear the same items day and day out - much to our embarassment. It now seems that Flybe received our bags in Edinburgh but lost them, found them, got them ready to send to us - and then LOST THEM AGAIN!!! On our return journey, when we checked in ... Read review

Advantages: Actually fly at sensible times from regional airports, loads of legroom
Disadvantages: The use of small planes mean you feel every bump and twist; much of FlyBE's fleet are turbo-props

...the not too distant future will see greater expansion on these destinations. I have been asked to provide more information on routes; usually happy to oblige, on this occasion, this would be something of a mammoth task as destinations from each of the 15 mainland, Eire and NI varies, safe to say they operate on a fairly large scale in these countries and France and I suspect they will continue to grow in Northern Europe for the foreseeable future, check out their website for more details on destinations - www.flybe.com. THE BOOKING PROCESS My boss actually did this, but was a fairly simplistic process that required both our names, credit card details and issued a confirmation number, tickets were received in the post within about two weeks. Unusually, ticket and passenger details were changeable for a small fee. UPDATE I booked this time... Read review

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Advantages: Convenient, good services, friendly
Disadvantages: Not all that close to Bristol, poor road infrastructure to get to airport.

..., Frankfurt, Munich, Isles of Scilly, Alicante, Barcelona, Malaga, Nice, Faro, Prague, Palma de Majorca, Venice, Newquay, Toulouse, Manchester, Copenhagen, Bilbao, Berlin, Bergerac, Bordeaux. The airlines providing these flights are: easyjet (http://www.easyjet.com/), KLM (http://www.klm.com/), flybe (http://www.flybe.com/), Brussells Airlines (http://www.snbrusselsairlines.com/), Air Arann (http://www.aerarann.com/), Ryanair (http://www.ryanair.ie/), Aerlingus (http://www.aerlingus.com/), British Airways (http://www.british-airways.com/), Eastern Airways (http://www.easternairways.com/), Aurigny (http://www.aurigny.com/), Skybus (http://www.islesofscilly-travel.co.uk/), Air South West (http://www.airsouthwest.com/) Easyjet provides the majority of flights. It should be noted that at present Bristol Airport... Read review

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Advantages: Low Cost, seats allocated
Disadvantages: smaller aircraft can be bumpy

...To be a little different FlyBe as British European are now known (www.flybe.com)they have come up with a simple idea. Low Fares, Seats allocated, pay for inflight drinks and snacks and if you are transferring through any other airport they can usually check the luggage all the way to your final destination. Anyway I flew from Belfast City Airport (2miles from the city centre)to Birmingham for a day trip so they checked us in for the return journey as well. The flight out was in a small Dash8 plane with 37 seats , it was a bit bumpy but fine. The flight was on time leaving and arriving, I had a coffee for £1.50 and my day return which was on a special offer cost only £67 including all taxes. The average seems to be about £97 return. On the return flight it was late leaving due to a mix up on availablilty of a wheelchair assistance... Read review

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