Loganair widens cross-Border links

Published on Monday 2 February 2009 20:32

HIGHLANDS and Islands airline Loganair is to launch its longest and most southerly route, linking Aberdeen and Cardiff, to cater for oil and gas traffic, writes Alastair Dalton.

The service, which will run daily, except Saturdays, from 19 April, will be accompanied by extra flights on existing routes. However, the airline said the announcement did not signal the start of further expansion south of the Border.

Additional services will operate on the Inverness-Stornoway, Edinburgh-Sumburgh, Glasgow-Benbecula and Glasgow-Isle of Man routes.

Loganair said this would enable business people to make day return flights between Edinburgh and Inverness for the first time.

The flights will operate under the colours of Flybe, which took over from British Airways as Loganair's franchise partner last October. Flybe runs many cross-Border routes to non-London airports.

David Harrison, Loganair's chief executive, said: "We are hopeful that events such as Homecoming Scotland will lead to an increase in domestic travel, and we'll be doing our best to encourage this by offering more low fare flights.

"The new schedule provides additional connections that can only be good news for Scottish leisure and business travellers alike."