Newquay Cornwall Airport

The regional airline was the sole carrier on around a quarter of its route network, but the impact of its collapse will be far less severe than when the previous incarnation of Flybe failed almost three years ago.

The carrier flies from three London airports, but avoids Heathrow.

CEO Matthew Hall said a more diverse airline mix is helping to drive the recovery at the Northern Ireland airport.

The airline had previously withdrawn from the UK airport this winter, blaming “short-sighted and short-term decisions” by its management.

NQY has secured its second Ryanair service to Spain.

The UK airline will serve 12 destinations this winter, including resuming flights to Newquay.

The regional airline sees strong leisure and VFR demand for flights to Newquay.

Routes details the latest new route announcements, as well as the services returning to carriers’ networks.

The subsidized routes are part of the UK government’s effort to restore regional, domestic connectivity.

The Scottish carrier has unveiled its summer 2022 schedule, which includes the restart of several international services as well as frequency increases on scores of UK domestic routes.

Routes rounds-up the latest new route announcements, as well as services returning to carrier’s networks.

The additional services include its first-ever route to Belfast City Airport.

Aer Lingus and British Airways step in to plug connectivity gaps in the UK and Ireland after the failure of regional carrier Stobart Air.

The carrier returned to MME in February after an absence of almost three years.

The Scottish airline is adding more UK and Ireland routes with five services from Teesside International.

After a deal was agreed that could pave the way for Flybe to restart operations, Routes looks at what became of the carrier’s UK network since its failure.

Routes analyzes some of the services returning as well as new routes being launched. This week we look at Air Senegal’s European expansion; British Airways starting Cornwall Airport Newquay flights; and Jazeera Airways adding a fourth destination in Turkey.

The first of the services will commence on March 16.

British Airways will start flights between Newquay and London Heathrow this summer.

As speculation mounts about the future of regional airline Flybe, Routes looks at the carrier’s network and the important role it plays in UK connectivity.

This week: AirAsia begins routes to Belitung; Volotea to station two A319s in Naples; Loganair to start Cornwall Newquay flights; SAS expands network with 14 new routes and more.

This week: Doncaster Sheffield to get a new link to Poland; Germania to operate Dusseldorf to Tirana; and Flybe switches Newquay Cornwall Airport route from Gatwick to Heathrow.

SAS is adding six destinations to its network in summer 2019 along with 17 new routes from Scandinavia.

Not content with a 40+ per cent growth in passenger traffic in 2016, one week into the New Year Cornwall Airport Newquay has already confirmed the launch of a new summer link to the Republic of Ireland from Stobart Air and the return of Flybe services to London Stansted as part of an expanded summer 2017 programme that will also see increased frequencies on five existing domestic routes.

This ‘start up aid’ will be made available from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund which was announced by the UK government in June 2013 and is open to airports with fewer than five million passengers per year. This fund has already been partly distributed to support strategic routes to London from Newquay and Dundee but is now being extended to bids for more routes.