FLYBE is set to restart flying next month and will have 23 new routes by the summer.

Just two years after the airline collapsed and more than 2,000 people lost their jobs, Flybe is back and will begin flying again on April 13.

Initially, the airline will have seven routes, but by August it will have 23 routes operating across 16 airports in the UK, France and the Netherlands.

Flybe will have crew and aircraft bases in Birmingham and Belfast City, and the pair of them have more than half of the routes.

Belfast will have the most routes, with links to Birmingham, Glasgow, Leeds Bradford, Heathrow, Edinburgh, East Midlands, Manchester, Southampton, Inverness and Newcastle.

Internal UK flights will begin first, followed by flights from Amsterdam to Birmingham and East Midlands at the end of April.

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Flights to French airports Avignon, Brest and Toulon Hyères will begin in July.

The airline will also re-establish the service between Heathrow and Leeds Bradford, which was abandoned by British Airways at the start of the pandemic.

One-way flights begin from £29.99 on most routes, but flights from Heathrow are more expensive, at around £50.

Flights to France are pricier, with a one-way ticket from Birmingham to Avignon costing £156.99 in July.

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Flybe chief executive Dave Pflieger said: “We think our new flights will benefit everyone who wants low fares and more flights to go on holiday and visit loved ones.

“Our goal is to create an airline that people love, and we aim to do that by making air travel on Flybe an easy and enjoyable experience so you will fly with us again in the future.

"The new Flybe team has worked tirelessly over the past year to create an airline that delivers on price, schedule, and choice, and we look forward to having you book a ticket on flybe.com and start flying again next month, this summer, and in the many years ahead!”

Flybe went into administration in March 2020 with the loss of 2,400 jobs as the pandemic destroyed large parts of the travel market.

Before then, the airline flew approximately eight million passengers a year, both in the UK and Europe.

Flybe routes

• Belfast City to Birmingham, April 13, four daily
• Belfast City 10 Glasgow, April 14, four daily
• Belfast City to Leeds Bradford, April 28, three daily
• Belfast City to London Heathrow, April 28, twice daily
• Leeds Bradford to London Heathrow, April 28, three daily
• Amsterdam to Birmingham, April, 28, once daily
• Amsterdam to East Midlands, April 28, once daily
• Amsterdam to Belfast, May 28, once daily
• Amsterdam to London Heathrow, May 29, twice daily
• Belfast City to Edinburgh, June 23, three daily
• Belfast City to East Midlands, July 7, twice daily
• Belfast City to Manchester, July 7, four daily
• Birmingham to Avignon, July 9, weekly
• Birmingham to Brest, July 9, once weekly
• Southampton to Avignon, July 23, weekly
• Southampton to Toulon Hyères, July24, once weekly
• Belfast City to Southampton, July 28, twice daily
• Birmingham to Edinburgh, July 28, four daily
• Birmingham to Glasgow, July 28, three daily
• Aberdeen to Birmingham, August 18, once daily
• Aberdeen to Belfast City, August 25, four weekly
• Belfast City to Inverness, August 25, four weekly
• Belfast City to Newcastle, August 25, once daily

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