Loganair / Flybe announce Dundee flights
04.03.08
Passengers will once again be able to fly between Dundee and Birmingham Airport after Loganair announced it would be launching new flights connecting the hubs. The route was suspended last year by Flywhoosh when the Polish airline that provided its plane ended their deal. The Loganair flights will be operated under a franchise agreement with Flybe and will take off on May 21.
The airline will operate three daily return flights on weekdays and a return flight on a Sunday. The flights will be operated under the Flybe badge using 34-seater Saab 340B planes.
Scott Grier, chairman of Loganair, aid they had been interested in flying to Birmingham before the collapse of the Flywhoosh flights and believes they can succeed where the airline failed. He said: ‘We believe that we can establish a separate market from the Edinburgh market. We believe there are more than enough passengers wanting to use Dundee.’
Loganair operated its first scheduled flights from Dundee in 1963, after the airline's founder, Willie Logan, won the tender to build the Tay Road Bridge. Workers, engineers and architects used the flights between the airport and Edinburgh during the construction of the bridge.
Mr Grier said that this initial new route - together with flights to Belfast City Airport to be launched on the same day - would just be the start of its new partnership with Dundee Airport.
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