Why Flybe matters: ‘Valuable connectivity’
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Although it has been around under various names for the past 40 years, Flybe has never been an airline for the masses.
The number of passengers it carries pales by comparison with better-known budget carriers such as easyJet or Ryanair.
As a company, it is only a tenth as big as collapsed holiday firm Thomas Cook, so there is little prospect of a government bailout.