The skies over Southampton are currently quieter than they have been in a very long time, perhaps since the boom in air transport of the late 1920s. The reason is, of course, the collapse on 5 March of Flybe, which was responsible for more than 90 per cent of flights out of Southampton Airport, the former Eastleigh Aerodrome. This brought to an end the third era of the British European name in UK commercial aviation, the first having lasted from 1946 to 1974, and the second from 1991 to 2008 when British Airways used the name for its tour subsidiary, albeit on paper only.
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