Around seven months after the last flight, the actually insolvent regional airline is showing the first signs of life. The carrier could take off again as early as next year.

The Covid-19 pandemic gave the British Flybe the rest, on March 4, 2020 flight operations had to be suspended. Now the company is to be reanimated by Virgin Atlantic shareholder Thyme Opco, like airlines.de reported. A sum for the takeover was not given. The aim is a comeback for the airline in the coming year.

In this way, “jobs, regional connections and the local economy would be supported”, according to the message from the managers from the management consultancy EY. A Thyme Opco spokesman told AFP that the restart would be "on a smaller scale." He did not give any more precise information about the number of staff. Flybe was one of the largest regional airlines in Europe with more than 2000 employees.