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flybe. (BE, Exeter) has announced it will close its bases at Cardiff and Doncaster/Sheffield, downsize its Exeter network, as well as stop flying regional jets to Norwich with the onset of the Winter 2019/20 season.

The British regional carrier said that it will end Embraer operations at all four airports in late October 2019 as a part of its previously announced strategy to retire E195s and focus on Dash 8-400 operations.

flybe. said that the end of jet operations at Exeter "will not impact the Q400 operated schedule out of Exeter, nor the existing base structure." According to the ch-aviation capacity module, the airline uses the Bombardier Aerospace turboprops on flights from Exeter to Amsterdam Schiphol, Belfast City, Dublin Int'l, Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow Int'l, Guernsey, Jersey, London City, Manchester Int'l, Newcastle, GB, and Paris CDG. In turn, the E195s are used predominantly on leisure routes to Spain and Portugal.

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Air Nostrum (YW, Valencia Manises) is to be restructured into a group of seven distinct companies ahead of its planned merger with CityJet (WX, Dublin Int'l).

During a press conference on Friday, March 22, the Spanish carrier holding's president, Carlos Bertomeu, said the exercise would allow each company to operate in a specific niche thus avoiding duplication. It will also increase their ability to market to third-party customers, in particular, "very large clients" such as Lufthansa and SAS Scandinavian Airlines.

The companies include:

• Air Nostrum Engineering: will be responsible for MRO services that are currently carried out by Air Nostrum's technical division. It will primarily target the European market;
• Air Nostrum Global Services: the key unit in the group which will offer a variety of services including legal, corporate communications, human resources, financial, IT, and administration to member carriers as well as third-parties;
• Air Nostrum Training: will cater to crew training;
• Air Nostrum Technic America (ANTA): headquartered in Paraguay, ANTA provides major maintenance services and stockpiles Bombardier Aerospace...