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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Alexander Brock & Dan Haygarth

All Flybe staff at airport made redundant as Ryanair offers jobs lifeline

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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