Free travel on LNER for stranded Flybe staff and customers

Flybe collapsed into administration on Thursday morning.

The collapse has put thousands of jobs at risk.

Staff and customers should present their employee ID, boarding card or flight confirmation details in order to travel.

Suzanne Donnelly, LNER Commercial Director, said: “We recognise this is a difficult time for Flybe staff and for customers booked to travel with the former airline. We are pleased to be able to offer free standard travel to help people return home following the collapse of Flybe.”

Unions and politicians have reacted angrily over the collapse of Flybe - which will cost at least 1,400 jobs - just weeks after the company narrowly avoided going under.

Oliver Richardson, national officer for major airline industry union Unite, told the PA news agency: "Unite members and the entire staff at Flybe, will be feeling angry and confused about how and why the airline has been allowed to collapse.

"It is simply outrageous that the government has not learned the lessons following the collapse of both Monarch and Thomas Cook that the much promised airline insolvency review has still not materialised.

"While other European countries are able to introduce measures to keep airlines flying when they enter administration, the UK remains unable or unwilling to do so."