Flybe

[58terminus]

The new livery will be rolled out across the fleet over the next 6 years.

6 years. Who has the contract? Same group that are building the Midland Metro?

 

[Jerry]

6 years. Who has the contract? Same group that are building the Midland Metro?

It'll be done by Flybe's own maintenance team when the aircraft go for maintenance.

 

[Kevin Farnell]

It reminds me of All Nippon (ANA). It's not bad, but I'd like to see a little more colour even if just in the dots below 'be' on the tail.

Kevin

 

[Rob c DSA]

Bit Eastern Airways for me

 

[Finger66]

Bit Eastern Airways for me

And why might that be do we all think...........

 

[jfy1999]

It reminds me of All Nippon (ANA). It's not bad, but I'd like to see a little more colour even if just in the dots below 'be' on the tail.

Kevin

This new livery might be cheaper for them in the long run - fewer colours to order at the Air Livery paint shop!

The Eurohub ramp is going to look a mess with three different Flybe liveries

 

[Aviador]

The new logo is ok but it looks unfinished. There was never a need to change to a new livery and there was never a need to change to the previous livery.

Flybe need to get better at doing the basics. What they should be concentrating on is brand loyalty which is far more important. Timekeeping, serviceability and customer satisfaction are not going to change with a lick of paint.

 

[rollo]

All looks a bit of a mess to me so now we will have three different logos but at least in my opinion the latest is the better though not great although 6/7years to complete is hopeless they will never get a proper identity.

You only have to look at the mess B.A..got themselves into with the "tails" and only sorted it with the adoption of the union flag with a little help of a certain Margaret Thatcher and her hanker chief.They now have a brand regonised worldwide, Flybe need one U.K.wide for starters.

 

[mullion]

I like the current scheme with just that little flash of colour that really stands
out, the new is nice but just a little bland and perhaps large Flybe titles
would help

 

[Silvercity]

The new logo is ok but it looks unfinished. There was never a need to change to a new livery and there was never a need to change to the previous livery.

Flybe need to get better at doing the basics. What they should be concentrating on is brand loyalty which is far more important. Timekeeping, serviceability and customer satisfaction are not going to change with a lick of paint.

Agreed expensive doing livery change..I actually prefer the old Jersey European livery ...but I'm going back. I also am not keen on the title what does flybe mean ? If it's British European ....then say it. Same for bmi what's that ??! British Midland International ?

 

[mullion]

Technically it`s British European but never used as everybody knows what the BE means

 

[Jerry]

Agreed expensive doing livery change..I actually prefer the old Jersey European livery ...but I'm going back. I also am not keen on the title what does flybe mean ? If it's British European ....then say it. Same for bmi what's that ??! British Midland International ?

Shortened names are easier for people to say and of course type on social media.

 

[Silvercity]

Shortened names are easier for people to say and of course type on social media.

Yes understand all that...I guess it's the modern way. I don't think if you asked any passenger they would know what the ' BE' means, they could hazard a guess i suppose.
I just like a definition of the abbreviation on aircraft etc.

 

[jfy1999]

This image of G-JECP shows a larger logo on the side of the plane, not sure if this is real or if it's just been photoshopped.

 

[Jerry]

This image of G-JECP shows a larger logo on the side of the plane, not sure if this is real or if it's just been photoshopped.

https://m.imgur.com/WexHJtk

Photo shopped i believe

 

[Silvercity]

Another photo of the new livery popped up on headlines on my phone and I think out of their 3 different liveries I like this the most after studying it more.

 

[Coathanger16]

Shortened names are easier for people to say and of course type on social media.

Very much so. A lot of people call British Airways just BA, or Virgin Atlantic just Virgin.

As for what does the BE mean, I wouldn't be surprised if these days it doesn't actually mean anything and Flybe has just become a word. NATS used to stand for National Air Traffic Service but it no longer does, its just a name. Same is probably true for Flybe.

 

[GliderPilot]

The "photo-shopped" livery looks great in my opinion

 

[JENNYJET]

Birmingham Executive using JETSTREAM 31 morphed into Flybe or am I in error?

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Birmingham Executive using JETSTREAM 31 morphed into Flybe or am I in error?

Birmingham Executive Airways became Birmingham European Airways which later merged with Brymon Airways to become Brymon European Airways. Later there was a de-merger and Brymon was bought by BA and the Birmingham European part of the merged airline became Maersk Air UK.

I have to admit I was aware that after Brymon and Birmingham European de-merged the former became a fully-owned subsidiary of BA (it had flown as a BA franchise for a number of years before that) but I had to check up on the Maersk UK part of the de-merger.

Flybe started life as Jersey European Airways nearly 40 years ago. For a short period at the beginning of this century the name of the airline was altered to British European and then to Flybe.