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As of 12 November 2019, The Barney Group have a letter of intent to order 40 more Boeing 787s.

During the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the Barney Group ceased operations on LondonAir and EuroFlyer services. These airlines were already making losses before the COVID-19 pandemic, so it just made sense to put the airlines into insolvency.

During the 737 MAX groundings, the Barney Group displayed their faith in the aircraft type by ordering 125 more 737 MAXs, containing 50 737 MAX 9S and 75 737 MAX 10s.

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Fly Barney was founded in 2016 and was the first airline in The Barney Group. The new airline quickly started competing against larger airlines like British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, but later on Fly Barney and Virgin Atlantic would build an alliance together and would continue to help each other out. The new airline with its fleet of Boeing 747s, 767-300ERs and Boeing 737s quickly became one of the largest airline in the UK.

During December 2021, Fly Barney struck a deal with Virgin Atlantic, to create a regional airline named "Virgin Connection." This airline would provide Domestic and some European connections for Virgin's long haul flights. Fly Barney repainted 10 of it's Airbus A220s into the Virgin Connection livery (Virgin Atlantic livery but with Connection instead of Atlantic title). These aircraft will all be based exclusively at London Heathrow and will provide flights to Belfast Aldergrove, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Manchester, Brussels, Paris, Amsterdam and Frankfurt. Many of these destinations are already Fly Barney bases. All of these flights will be operated by Fly Barney under the "Virgin Connection" brand.

Airbus A220-100 - G-HOOA - A New Connection

Airbus A220-100 - G-HOOB - Lady of London

Airbus A220-100 - G-HOOC

Airbus A220-100 - G-HOOF

Airbus A220-100 - G-HOOG

Airbus A220-100 - G-HOOH

Airbus A220-100 - G-HOOP - Hula Girl

Airbus A220-100 - G-HOOX

Airbus A220-100 - G-HOOY

Airbus A220-100 - G-HOOZ - Who's that Girl?

Fleet Information
Since 2015, Fly Barney has taken strides to make their Fleet as Green and Efficient as possible retiring their older 747s and 767s in favour of more fuel efficient and economical aircraft such as the Boeing 777 and 787. However throughout 2016 and 2017 Fly Barney built up a huge fleet of Boeing 757s becoming the world's second largest operator of the Boeing 757 (just behind Delta) and become the worlds largest operator of the Airbus A220-100.

Fly Barney is one of the most efficient airlines in the world. However, the Boeing 757 fleet is holding them back in terms of efficiency. Fly Barney has been looking for a replacement for the Boeing 757 for quite some time now but a decision has not yet been made. The Barney Group (Fly Barney's Parent Company) has already found an alternative to the Boeing 757 for their low cost airline, Fly JPQ. The aircraft they chose was the Airbus A321XLR. This initially did not seem a practical replacement for Fly Barney's 757 fleet as the two airlines' use cases for the aircraft are vastly different. Fly Barney had been in talks with Boeing about a possible middle of the market Jet but so far nothing has come from this. Even if Boeing decide to build a middle of the market jet, it won't enter service for at least another 10-12 years. Sadly, Fly Barney's 757 fleet does not have that long left and they are in desperate need for a replacement. Fly Barney has been in talks with Airbus about a huge order for the Airbus A321XLR but, the airline has recently decided to retrofit their Boeing 757 fleet with the same cabin that's in their Boeing 787s. It's probably safe to assume, Fly Barneys 757 fleet is not going away just yet.

In 2020, Fly Barney claimed they would find a "suitable replacement" for their Boeing 757 fleet. During this period Fly Barney were also retiring some of their older Boeing 757-200 aircraft due to a decline in travel demand due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

On the 17th July 2020 (during the COVID-19 pandemic) Fly Barney immediatly retired their Boeing 777-200 and 737-700 fleets. This decision was made due to the drop in travel demand. Experts evaluated that by the time travel demand returns to normal, these aircraft would be past their retirement date.

On the 9th September 2020 (during the COVID-19 pandemic), Fly Barney negotiated a deal with Boeing to order a further 20 Boeing 787-9s. This move corresponds with the planned retirement of Fly Barney's Airbus A330-300 aircraft. Also during the same time period, Fly Barney announced an order for four more Boeing 787-10s, these will be used to fill the gap in the fleet that the Boeing 777-200s ahd 777-200ERs used to fill. The 787-10s deliveries will begin in 2023 when air travel is projected to grow again.

On the 20th September 2020, The Barney Group announced the closure of Fly Barney International, transferring all of its Boeing 737-800s and 737 MAX orders to Fly Barney UK. Fly Barney will be using these aircraft to phase out older Boeing 737-800s. These aircraft will also help Fly Barney become a dominant player in the UK market and the addition of 250 Boeing 737-800s and 310 orders for the 737 MAX will help them expand into smaller UK airports like Birmingham and Edinburgh.

Fly Barney has one of the newest and most efficient fleets of any British airline.

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Fly Barney Europe operates a mixed Boeing and Airbus fleet.

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Fly Barney International was an airline designed to be a shared fleet between airlines in the Barney Group. On most occasions the aircraft in the Fly Barney International Fleet will be operated by another airline in the group. As all the Fly Barney Airlines have the same livery, these aircraft can be easily shared.

On the 20th September 2020 Fly Barney announced the closure of Fly Barney International and its fleet would be transferred to Fly Barney UK.

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Fly Barney America is an American subsidiary of Fly Barney UK but operates as a Barney Group Airline. The airline gives the group more of a monopoly over the United States, directly competing with the Big 3.

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Fly Barney America retired their Airbus A330-200s during the COVID-19 pandemic, this now makes them one of the most efficient airlines in existence.

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Fly Barney Great British Cargo is a subsidiary of Fly Barney UK that manages the Barney Group's Cargo as well as operating some of its own aircraft.

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Fly JPQ was created by the Barney Group in 2016 to compete with British Budget Long Haul and short haul airlines like Norwegian, Ryanair and EasyJet.

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Due to reduced demand for air travel in the COVID-19 pandemic, Fly JPQ retired their older long rage aircraft such as the Airbus A330-200 and -300.

As of 2020, Fly JPQ operates a mainly Airbus fleet comprised of the following:

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LondonAir was a British Charter airline created by the Barney Group.

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LondonAir operated a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft. The Airline used to operate Boeing 737 NGs and the 737 MAX but due to the 737 MAX groundings in 2019, LondonAir transferred all 737 MAXs and orders to Fly Barney UK and ordered 40 Airbus A320neos. These Airbus A320neos were purchase rights from other airlines in the Barney Group.

The airline went into insolvency on 25 June 2020.

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EuroFlyer was a German budget airline and subsidiary of Fly Barney UK. EuroFlyer aimed to capture the market left unoccupied by defunct Air Berlin at Berlins airports and also had plans to expand throughout Europe.

This airline directly competed with the Lufthansa Group's Eurowings.

The airline went into insolvency on 25 June 2020.

Fleet
EuroFlyer started operating in 2019 with 30 737-700s transferred from parent company Fly Barney UK. It was a risky decision seeing as the 737 MAX (the aircraft planned to retire the Boeing 737-700) is currently grounded. However, in early 2020 the MAX should be flying again letting all airlines that operate the MAX operate as usual.

It was considered by the Barney Group to start the new airline with Boeing 737-800s (as the Barney Group owns more than 300 of them) however, the aircraft was seen as too crucial for operation without the MAX so the airline started with it 737-700s. As soon as the first MAX joins EuroFlyer (unveiling EuroFlyer's official livery as current aircraft are still in the Original Old Fly Barney livery) the airline can immediately begin retiring its older 737-700s.

Fleet as of when the airline ceased operations.

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The Fair Airport Alliance or FairAir is an airline alliance formed by Fly Barney and Virgin Atlantic.

The FairAir alliance comes in direct response to British Airways' monopoly over Heathrow Slots, as British Airways owns almost half of the slots at Heathrow whereas Virgin Atlantic and Fly Barney Combined barely make up 25% of the slots. This has forced airlines like Fly Barney and Virgin Atlantic to setup their main bases at other airports like Gatwick (Virgin Atlantics main base as well as one of Fly Barney's bases), Stansted (Fly Barney's Main Base), Luton (One of Fly Barney's Bases) and Southend (One of Fly Barney's bases).

Due to Airport overcrowding Fly Barney has to setup many bases instead of one or two main bases (like British Airways or Virgin Atlantic) as there is no space. Fly Barney picked London Stansted to be its Main Base as it has the most facilities for maintenance.

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Delta and Air Europa both left Skyteam and joined FairAir a day later. Previous Members