FLYBE 2.0'S INAUGURAL FLIGHT! HORRENDOUS SECURITY QUEUES - Leeds Bradford to London Heathrow

[@martsmiscmix]

Great to see them back! I wish them well . . . Thanks for putting this together.

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Thank you for watching! 😀

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

I live close to Leeds-Bradford. Flying to London is too short a distance to make it worthwhile. I can be in central London in about 3hrs going by train. Flying is only useful if you are joining a connecting flight out of LHR.

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

100% agree. Flybe could do to get some codeshare agreements in place

[@msm2267]

It’s cheaper than the train

[@jjsmallpiece9234]

@@msm2267 But if you are going into Central London from LHR, you will have additional travel costs. Depends what time of day you travel and how far ahead you book your train ticket. If the prices are similar, going straight to Central London by train is more convenient . Certainly doubt if flying is quicker overall if going into London

[@jameswhughes]

@@msm2267 Maybe if you're particularly unlucky with tickets, most of the time there's bound to be an advance fare that's cheaper (especially when combined with the extra cost of getting to the airports, or having to pay for a bag on the flight)

[@simondavey7787]

Thank you for a great trip report. I hope that the reincarnated FlyBe can bring back the glory of regional connectivity that they had before. I hope to fly with them again soon.

[@GLAFly]

Great video - really enjoyed it!

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Thanks!

[@mxyzptlyk]

Good to see FLYBE is back. Let's hope they stay back. We used them a few times on flights to Europe to connect to flights to Asia and beyond. We only ever flew the Jungle Jets but would like to fly the Dash-8. Many thanks for the fast forward through the Duty Free, there's nothing more boring in a travel vlog than being shown the Duty Free area. Fast Track should avoid Duty Free. Good job.

[@pklongutoobe]

I wish FlyBe would reintroduce the SOU to LBA route. At the SOU end you could park at the terminal for the weekend and more or less walk on to the flight.

[@Trek001]

0:46 - 0:54 - 5:54 (in 1A viewed from the back) - 7:26 (my right arm) - 14:47 (thats me faintly applauding the lead FA as nobody else seemed to do it) - 16:14 Surprising to see myself on a video so many times that surely it counts as a Special Guest Star credit!

[@aspect9857]

Today is friday and 13th and you have 666 subscribers. what a coincidence. Love your videos!

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

That’s crazy, haha! Thanks for watching 😊

[@easydrive3662]

Great to see flybe back in the air and even better to see them at LBA! The airport has done well to get flybe on the london route plus we have belfast too. Current security queues are a nightmare atm though, to note even if that flybe flight was fully loaded it still would only use around half the length of the lba runway. Its only the widebody jets that have to be limited on weight

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

It certainly is really good to see! I just hope the routes prove to be successful

[@droge192]

Virtually a STOL take off that! Nice job.

[@WCSpotting]

Wow!! Great video!

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Thank you so much!

[@simonnlaroche5438]

Great vid. Thank you!

[@davidh2608]

Great video, keep up the great work! Subscribed and hit the bell!

[@vincentgibson5965]

Great to see FlyBe back. As far as security queues are concerned, pay a decent rate for staff

[@mmcfarlane001]

I flew Jet2 to Paris from LBA a couple of weeks ago. I’m not a fan of the airport but there were no queues at that time.

[@planespottingringway]

Super trip report! Great coverage, liked and subscribed 😊✈️

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Thank you so much! 😀

[@Victor-oz3zo]

The dash 8 always really reminds me of the Fokker 50. What a great airplane that was.

[@Trek001]

Everyone loves a cheeky Fokker

[@davidsmart1819]

Just discovered your channel,very nicely put together review,thanks for posting

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Thank you very much!

[@EddieManning]

Enjoyed seeing the new regional FlyBe into LHR T2. Hope they can keep it up. Have witnessed their planes on takeoff too and they seem to hold up other traffic. Wonder what the A380 flight crew make of these tiny turboprop planes... We used to have a lot of clients who referred to the airline as FLY MAYBE.

[@GLAFly]

They just need to watch out for the prop-wash 🤣🤣🤣

[@sidneylongley1138]

We fly down to heathrow on June 4th staying overnight then on to vegas the following day with virgin, we looked at the train and it was £450 return I got flights for £280 return. You would think being an internal flight they would skip the security line and use another entrance, jersey air did that last time right next to where you check in with flybe.

[@r12004rewy]

Having separate lane for internal flights would be too easy. Flybe not making much money on that flight with 17 passengers and it was late leaving (Flybe of old)

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

No matter when it’s domestic or international, aviation security is of paramount importance. You can’t just skip it, at the end of the day any flight no matter where it’s flying to/from could be at risk of a security threat

[@sidneylongley1138]

I'm not looking forward to this flight from Leeds/bradford ..if we get on it that is

[@r12004rewy]

@@LETSGOInflightAviation I'm not suggesting that security be compromised but a separate lane for internal flights would reduce the queues, unfortunately our airports seem unable to accept the increase in overseas travel since the end of travel restrictions, to have only 2 security lanes available for hundreds of passengers was a total fiasco.

[@FraserAtSea]

Great to see them back, but these security lines at the airports right now terrify me. I've got a flight to Paris from Birmingham in a few weeks, and I dread to think what they're going to be like...!

[@roberthardy2013]

I’ve flown down before to catch a USA flight but only experienced that length of queue once and it was horrendous then! People had to be passed down the queue I order not to miss their flights, such chaos. Usually a great little airport though and only 15 mins from where we used to live.

[@bakmanplays]

Aged like fine wine

[@liamphilbin7256]

ppppp

[@twentyrothmans7308]

Security was appalling but it seems to be a phenomenon at the moment. I wonder if fast track would have improved it much. When BA flew it, I suspect the route was used for connections or for a quick tier point run with a B2B (that would have been my motive).

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Yeah it’s very common at the moment. It’s really difficult for airports but when you’re flying on a quick hour hop down to LHR it makes it so much less worthwhile! Like you say with BA, many people used it for connecting. Would be good to see Flybe arrange some codeshare agreements. Fast track was quicker taking it back to normal queuing times. They were calling flights on last call through fast track as well though, to make sure nobody missed their flights

[@vincentgibson5965]

Well if the airport paid a decent wage rate rather than around £9 an hour they would get more takers for the security positions. Stop penny pinching LBIA

[@gordonjohnston8321]

I hope they're able to somehow figure out a codeshare with BA. Being able to connect properly to BA's network in LHR would be super useful.

[@concorde1793]

Or even very useful.

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

100%. BA used to do well with passengers connecting at LHR

[@aviationfan2637]

Are they flying to Dublin

[@jordanbooth3748]

How many people on board?

[@davidhunt3808]

Gee not a lot of people on this flight !

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Hopefully it’s getting a bit busier now!

[@Georgia851]

leeds runway is huge actually

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Leeds has a small runway compared to most UK airports

[@simonround2439]

Great to see FlyBe back but would you really fly to London rather than get the train?

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

It sure is! I agree with you, I think that BA’s route used to act as a feeder into their long haul routes. Maybe Flybe could make some codeshare agreements with other airlines at Heathrow and operate a similar model

[@thomasfy4]

@@LETSGOInflightAviation they do, I flew to Los Angeles from Manchester via Paris with Flybe acting as the feeder airline

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

@@thomasfy4 this was the old Flybe. They used to have an Air France (among others) codeshare. The new Flybe doesn’t currently have any active codeshares

[@thomasfy4]

@@LETSGOInflightAviation how is Flybe able to just reappear with the same planes and logo? The virgin connect deal fell through but the UK domestic market, is it full of PSO agreements fuelled by subsidies or are the tax payers bailing out the debts of the old Flybe to start again with this model?

[@mrlabutler]

They’re a great airline - but 17 pax on LBALHR is not good - I hope more people book this to keep Flybe going

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Fingers crossed. Codeshare agreements are definitely needed!

[@stevenmc4446]

i traveled through Leeds/Bradford last August and only one security lane was in operation the airport wasn't busy but it still took 30 minutes to pass through security put me right off the place

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Yeah it’s really not great, fingers crossed things will get sorted soon

[@jimmeade2976]

I flew flybe back in 2018 from Southampton to Edinburgh. Nice to see them flying again, with a cleaned up cabin. Always enjoyed flying a Dash8. Nice video. One comment: your narration audio is difficult to hear. In future videos, you might want to increase your narration volume and/or decrease the camera volume.

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Thanks for the comments, I’ve had feedback before saying the narration was too loud, I think it’s personal preference so I now have a set audio level for all of my videos

[@gunvaldsandhaland7757]

Good job

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Thanks so much!

[@andrewstorm8240]

Maybe if it flew into city it might work for business

[@robertp.wainman4094]

Yuk - what is it with the UK and the colour of purple used in or on public transport? It's known to be a depressing colour associated with grief. Anyway, apart from purple - let's hope the route does well.

[@harleydaveandson5580]

You didn't mention the tyre pressures

[@tumolucky17]

Leeds is always like that, airports far too small for the amount of passengers.

[@concorde1793]

Too right....daft little village airport sucking in the passengers but not giving a shit about queues.

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Yep, the new terminal was what the airport needed but this has been rejected. Makes no sense as it was going to be a carbon neutral terminal which was very sustainable

[@Ceratto168]

there is a board in my school that says to stop the expansion of leeds’ terminal with a link to galba which is a protest website and managed to cancel the expansion, everytime i see the board i either flip it off or punch it i hate it so much

[@TRPGpilot]

It's a shame thye went bust again. I should have booked a flight to try out the Q400

[@shayflipz9098]

A shame that the airports let down the brilliant short haul airlines such as Flybe, who are trying their hardest but let down by poor airport management. Trust me when I say the lengthy security queues and similar ground experiences will put people off.

[@ruiutomy1]

Indeed, and this flight is a proof of a very bad management.

[@in-flightreport]

7:37 It’s strange seeing myself in someone else’s video 😂

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Haha! I was thinking the same, I’ve seen myself in a few videos 😂

[@Oldladysgin]

In the recent weeks I have travelled through DUS/AMS/BCN/NAP/MAD and in none of those was there any problem with long queues at security. The reason in the UK is simple - Brexit which robbed the country of many of the employees who worked at airports and for whom security clearance was easy to secure. The UK government in its hapless and hurried exit from the EU has bought this on its own people.

[@concorde1793]

You may have a point but at the same time highlighted what was wrong with such an arrangement. I have a friend in a very hush hush dept of the civil service and they concluded recently that 68% of the people on sickness benefit don't need to be....then there are the 1.8 million people unemployed....do the math. As for the Brexit vote if you don't like it clear off.....oh you want to stay ?

[@Oldladysgin]

@@concorde1793 I have cleared off, did it years ago. My point is valid and only those cult followers on the isolated island can't see it. The rest of the world can see it plain.

[@concorde1793]

@@Oldladysgin Cheers for clearing off.....98% have stayed....) :

[@buzzinbritain8222]

@@concorde1793 Only because they can't afford to leave.......... the UK has turned into a complete shithole -the downfall started with Thatcher and the increase in the 'I'm aright Jack attitude' . People in the UK are well and truly being f...cked in the arse, but are too blind or simple to see it.....

[@narabdela]

@@concorde1793 … and we’re all suffering as a result of this incompetent ****up of a Government and it’s corrupt leadership.

[@concorde1793]

Duty free still open.....no problem there then !

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

It was quiet because everyone was stuck in security, and when they did get through they had to rush to their gate!

[@ghosthorse77]

This will not pay if they cannot get the footfall. Then it will all happen again so I don't hold up too much hope of them keeping this going.

[@cvic9842]

i work in security at lba and yeah, its just embarassing. and its seemingly only getting worse

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

It’s not great, I hope they can get the issues sorted soon before the summer season really ramps up

[@cvic9842]

@@LETSGOInflightAviation me too, im jumping ship to jet2 soon anyway

[@mxr572]

great Canadian plane. Porter flies lots of them. and the new Canadian A220 jet. buy Canadian!

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

It’s a lovely aircraft to fly on. I’ve flown on them a few times and never been disappointed

[@devon896]

This route isn't doing very well for Flybe and it's no wonder why, I reckon it will be axed by the autumn.

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

From what I heard the route hasn’t been too good in the earlier days, but I have also heard that it’s looking more promising later in the year! 🤞

[@devon896]

@@LETSGOInflightAviation Hopefully it does, I want new Flybe to succeed and to do that it can't cling onto routes that don't make money like the original airline did.

[@devon896]

@@LETSGOInflightAviation As predicted it has been axed and replaced by Newquay instead.

[@ronaldgulliver6636]

lie it i fly from there a lot well on a flight simm as we dont live in leeds now

[@Chris-fp3ol]

Was mask wearing enforced or any announcement made about masks?

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

It was enforced. When we boarded they handed them out. I personally disagree with the policy particularly for domestic flights and when they are quiet like this. In my opinion it should be the passenger’s own decision

[@doveronefoxtrot4417]

Why would they ? That all finished a while ago.

[@Chris-fp3ol]

@@LETSGOInflightAviation I agree - I'm a BA Gold card holder and it is a pain on a few destinations on BA - I would not fly with FB until they scrap the pointless mandate.

[@ericthemauve]

@@LETSGOInflightAviation Enjoy your Covid infection m8y. I certainly wouldn't sit near you if you weren't wearing a mask.

[@droge192]

LBA is a criminally mismanaged airport. Two lanes for that volume of passengers. Get the Managers out on the floor working to provide the service they're responsible for.

[@Tom-vx2bm]

What a palaver with security!

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

I know! I do hope our summer travels are less hectic!

[@sarto7bellys]

Horrendous security queues, and who is to blame ? It ain't rocket science to realize that after laying people off due to the pandemic they would need to be replaced at some point, they've had loads of time to sort this crap out, what happens if you miss your flight due to not enough staff to service the queue ?

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

I’m not too sure, I’ve read a few stories of that happening. They were calling people through who had flights departing in the next 20 minutes

[@maxpert2]

It is disgusting that flights of this length are permitted, ban short on-island flights now!

[@willswomble7274]

No worries, it will be DoA quickly. Flybe mk1 went bust with much higher load levels than this. A daft route anyway to an airport with notoriously expensive charges, queues in the sky, queues waiting to get a stand and no room/time for tiddlers! Compare it with a coach for price/total travel time. People in 'The North' have a myriad of direct options from Manchester to almost anywhere on Earth, plus hopping via AMS, MAD or Frankfurt. Why would anyone put up negotiating Thiefrow?

[@solowithmanni]

I don't understand why anybody would actually need to fly from Leeds to London? It's too short of a distance to be a busy route. Seeing the amount of passengers on board - what a waste of fuel! And surely Flybe will be losing money by operating routes like this.

[@CarlosAlberto-ii1li]

Home to home time means its not worth it, jump in the car its easier.

[@andrrwprice7281]

How do people get away with well oversized carry on luggage such as the pink case of the woman boarding immediately before you???

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

Looks perfectly fine to me - it’s an overhead cabin bag. Going to assume she’s got it included in the ticket she chose

[@briandobson9272]

leeds has always being slow going through security,,,,,,,,,,, brian d.

[@LETSGOInflightAviation]

We use LBA often and like you say it is a lot slower than some other airports! But I’ve never seen the queue come much further past check-in Hall A!

[@DavidBrown-ec2jm]

Waste bag? I think you mean sick bag.

[@andi_b]

I'm doing the trip tomorrow lol