Private company
Connect Airways
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British business consortium
Connect Airways was a consortium formed in December 2018 to acquire the British regional airline Flybe, which had put itself up for sale in November 2018 after issuing a profit warning the previous month, The consortium comprised Virgin Atlantic and the Irish wet-lease specialist airline Stobart Air. The consortium was founded by Virgin Atlantic, Stobart Aviation and Cyrus Capital Partners through its Luxembourg-based vehicle DLP Holdings.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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Connect Airways was a consortium formed in December 2018 to acquire the British regional airline Flybe, which had put itself up for sale in November 2018 after issuing a profit warning the previous month, The consortium comprised Virgin Atlantic and the Irish wet-lease specialist airline Stobart Air. The consortium was founded by Virgin Atlantic, Stobart Aviation and Cyrus Capital Partners through its Luxembourg-based vehicle DLP Holdings.2
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- 1WikidataConnect Airways on Wikidata
- 2WikipediaConnect Airways on Wikipedia
- 3Wikimedia CommonsConnect Airways logo by Gtm250, CC BY-SA 4.0