The airline Flybe has ceased trading and all its scheduled flights from George Best Belfast City Airport have been cancelled with immediate effect. Passengers with flights today are being told not to travel to the airport.
Originally based at Exeter, Devon, the airline started up again from Birmingham Airport with Belfast as its second operating base after it was bought out of administration in 2021. The airline first collapsed in 2019 with the loss of 2,000 jobs.
Now the airline has collapsed again. It comes less than a year after new Flybe's first flights out of Birmingham and Belfast in April 2022.