Britain's biggest regional airline chases 20 partners after opening at Heathrow

Flybe Group said it’s pursuing 10 to 20 more partnership agreements with major airlines following its introduction of flights to London Heathrow in March. The services from Edinburgh and Aberdeen offer bigger carriers the chance to tap Scottish markets by striking code-share deals that let them sell tickets on Flybe’s planes as if they were their own. “Airlines flying from Heathrow see us as a unique opportunity to feed their flights,” CE Christine Ourmieres-Widener said, adding that when Flybe announced the services in Dec 2016 it had “more requests for code-shares than passengers booked on our flights.” Flybe currently has 11 code-share partners. Ourmieres-Widener said talks are ongoing with at least 1 US carrier, and that Manchester and Birmingham also offer further code-share prospects. <br/>