page_title: Flybe
section_title: Dash 8 Q400
hierarchical_section_title: Flybe / Fleet / Fleet strategy and developments / Dash 8 Q400
caption_attribution_description: Nice airliner flying regularly on AMS. De Havilland Canada DHC-8-402Q Dash 8 Amsterdam schiphol [AMS / EHAM] 03-09-2011
context_page_description: Flybe, styled as flybe, was a British airline based in Exeter, England. Until its sale to Connect Airways in 2019, it was the largest independent regional airline in Europe. Flybe provided more than half of UK domestic flights outside London.
  Flybe carried 8 million passengers a year between 56 airports in the UK and Europe, with over 210 routes across 15 countries. Its two hubs were Birmingham and Manchester airports but it also had a number of codeshares allowing connections to long-haul flights from airports such as London Heathrow, Paris CDG, Dublin and Amsterdam. The airline was a member of the European Regions Airline Association. The company slogan was Close to you.
  The airline was launched in 1979 as Jersey European Airways following the merger of Intra Airways and Express Air Services. In 1983, the airline was sold to Walker Steel Group, which also owned Spacegrand Aviation, and the two airlines were merged under the Jersey European name during 1985. The airline experienced significant growth during the 1990s; it was in this period that Jersey European Airways served as the launch customer for the Embraer E-195 regional airliner.
context_section_description: Flybe became the world's largest operator of the Dash 8 Q400 after it added 24 leased from Republic Airways in 2014. In May 2007, the airline signed a deal with Bombardier for a further 15 Q400 aircraft valued at US$394 million (£197 million), with options for a further 15, increasing its fleet of the type to 60. In September 2014, Republic Airways agreed to lease 24 of their Q400 aircraft to Flybe with delivery over two years starting from March 2018. In June 2017, Flybe announced that due to a loss of near to £20 million, it would retire six Q400 aircraft from 2017.
caption: A Flybe De Havilland Dash 8–400 wearing the old livery.
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