BBCNEWS Business Briefing March 5, 2020
We start with the struggling uk airline flybe. It has gone into administration, leaving flights cancelled and passengers around europe stranded. The airline was trying to secure a bailout loan from the uk government but its efforts to survive have been complicated by a slump in air travel because of the coronavirus outbreak. Flybe called itself europes largest Regional Airline, serving 56 airports and carrying 8 million passengers a year. It employs 2,000 people, whose jobs are now in doubt. Heres our business editor, simonjack. 0ur correspondent was in exeter as the news of the collapse of th...