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Flybe set to collapse within hours with 2,000 jobs at risk and 'planes grounded' - Today News

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For any copyright, please send me a message.  Embattled airline Flybe has reportedly grounded multiple flights tonight and is expected to collapse within hours with 2,000 jobs at risk.  There have been multiple reports of passengers being turned away at UK airports tonight and aircraft detained at Glasgow and Manchester Airports.  The BBC reports the airline is going to collapse within hours and the last remaining airborne flights will land at UK airports late tonight.  The airline has released a statement saying the issue at Glasgow was a "miscommunication".  Earlier it was reported Flybe was running out of cash and will not survive until the end of the month without help, with 2,000 jobs said to be at risk.  Devon Live has spoken to a passenger on board the grounded flight from Manchester to Exeter who has been told by staff that it will not be taking off this evening.  Scotland correspondent for ITV, Peter Smith, tweeted that a FlyBe aircraft has been seized at Glasgow Airport, with staff being "taken off their aircraft and being told the bad news".  Following reports of disruption to flights at Glasgow Airport, Flybe said there had been a "miscommunication" over refuelling of two services to Birmingham.  A spokesperson told the Press Association: "Flybe can confirm that, following a miscommunication regarding re-fuelling this evening, two flights were delayed and that due to the crew now being out of hours, have been cancelled.  "Normal operations have now resumed.  "We sincerely apologise to those passengers inconvenienced by the disruption to their travel plans."   A Glasgow Airport spokesman would only say that a "detention notice" had been placed on a craft as a "precautionary measure".  A picture circulating on Twitter appears to show a detention notice placed on a craft at Glasgow Airport. It states the craft is 'detained at Glasgow Airport...until the charges outstanding' have been 'settled'.  A similar notice has been seen by Devon Live, reportedly from Manchester Airport, which states aircraft registration G-KKEV will be 'detained by Manchester Airport...in respect of the default in payment of the airport charges'.  The Mirror has spoken to one traveller who was trying to get home to Edinburgh from Birmingham when his plane was unexpectedly diverted to Manchester shortly after 8pm.  He said no one from the airline explained before the flight landed - but the captain came out and said the company had gone bust.  Speaking from the plane on the runway at Manchester Airport, he said: "They didn't explain it to us at all. We landed in Manchester and the captain told us we weren't going anywhere.  "We thought we were landing in Edinburgh. The captain came out and she said that airports are refusing t

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