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airBaltic bids farewells to its last Bombardier Q400

airBaltic has announced that on February 1 it has successfully concluded the redelivery process of its last Bombardier Q400 (DHC-8-402) turboprop (YL-BAQ) aircraft back to the regional lessor Nordic Aviation Capital. Now, the comp-any operates a fully single-type fleet of 39 Airbus A220-300 aircraft. 

YL-BAQ being returned

The first Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircraft joined airBaltic back in 2010. Over the years, 12 different Bombardier Q400 NextGen aircraft have carried more than 11 million passengers in total and have performed over 222,000 flights all across the Europe.

Top Copyright Photo: airBaltic Bombardier DHC-8-402 (Q400) YL-BBT (msn 4438) VIE (Tony Storck). Image: 939143.

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Flybe 2 fails, goes into receivership, ceases operations

Flybe (2nd) (Birmingham) has failed like the original Flybe. Today, January 28, 2023, the reborn carrier went into receivership and administrators were appointed. The new Flybe ceased all operations.

Previously in October 2022, the company ceased its flights between Leeds/Bradford and London due to low demand.

In the same month, the airline suspended flights to Southampton.

According to Cirium:

Cirium Data – Flybe

  • Flybe was scheduled to serve 17 destinations across the UK and Europe in 2023 – with Belfast City, Birmingham and London Heathrow being the largest destinations by flights
  • The airline operated 7x daily flights at Heathrow, Britain’s busiest airport, to Amsterdam, Belfast, Newcastle and Newquay
  • Next week (30 Jan – 5 Feb) Flybe was scheduled to operate 292 flights – equating to over 22,700 seats.

This month the airline had previously announced it was increasing frequencies from Belfast City Airport and Birmingham International Airport across the UK and Amsterdam starting on March 26, 2023 for the summer of 2023:

All of these plans will now probably not happen in administration.

The restored airline launched operations on April 13, 2022.

Top Copyright Photo: Flybe (2nd) Bombardier DHC-8-402 (Q400) G-JECY (msn 4157) SOU (Antony J. Best). Image: 957355.

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Horizon Air operates its last turboprop flight

Horizon Air (Alaska Horizon) is planning to retire and operate its last Bombardier DHC-8-402 (Q400) revenue flight today.

Today’s date was selected because the turboprop was introduced by Horizon Air 22 years ago on January 26, 2001.

Horizon Air will become an all-jet airline.

Horizon Air was founded in 1981 by entrepreneur Milt Kuolt and a group of venture capitalists in Seattle, Horizon had fewer than 100 employees at that time and operated a fleet of two Fairchild F-27 propjets. 

Update: The last revenue flight (flight AS9986) was operated with N421QX (above) on January 26, 2023 between Seattle-Tacoma (SEA) and Portland arriving at 9:40 pm (2140).

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Top Copyright Photo: Alaska Horizon (Horizon Air) Bombardier DHC-8-402 (Q400) N453QX (msn 4489) SEA (Brian Worthington). Image: 959980.

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