Loganair, UK’s largest regional airline, has revealed its Summer 2022 schedule in which it will fly to 73 domestic and international destinations.
The schedule – which the airline describes as ‘cautiously optimistic’ – will see Loganair return to international flying next year for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. It will introduce new routes to its domestic network and will offer a modest increase in frequency on several existing routes.
Loganair will operate 300 flights per week, with 58,000 weekly seats available across 73 domestic and international routes. Travellers can now book Loganair flights from 27th March 2022. Flights can be booked from today until mid- August 2022, and future flights beyond that date will become bookable around 11 months in advance.
Starting 27th May 2022, Loganair will operate 4-weekly flights between Teeside and Dublin. Flights between Aberdeen and the Irish capital – which join the Loganair network next week – will also expand up to nine-flights-a-week in each direction as part of the Summer 2022 schedule.
Norway will be back in Loganair’s network when the carrier resumes flights to both Stavanger and Bergen next year. Regular flights will operate from Edinburgh and Newcastle to both cities, and the important historic ties between the Shetland Islands and Norway will be maintained with the re-introduction of seasonal Sumburgh-Bergen flights.
Complementing the new route and restored international services, Loganair will also be expanding services on several of its UK domestic and Isle of Man routes:
- Additional services during the peak summer from Manchester and Edinburgh to Cornwall Airport Newquay (increasing to seven and six flights each week respectively)
- New one-stop, same-plane service linking Cornwall Airport Newquay with Inverness every Saturday, and the one-stop, same-plane service between Aberdeen-Newquay will be increased from five to six days per week (now daily except Wednesdays) between May and September.
- Isle of Man services will be flown by larger ATR72 aircraft, moving from 48 seats per flight today up to 72 seats. Frequency of service between the Isle of Man and Manchester will increase to 4-daily flights and Isle of Man-Liverpool will increase from two to three-daily flights
- There is a boost at City of Derry where London Stansted services will increase from 15 to 17-flights-a-week in the peak season and larger ATR72 aircraft will be deployed on the Liverpool-City of Derry route to provide more seats every day after a very strong first summer on the route this year
- Edinburgh-Cardiff flights will increase to 6-times-a-week (daily except Saturday)
- A second Glasgow to Sumburgh service will be introduced on Mondays, Fridays and Sundays and Loganair will resume a fourth flight between Glasgow and Stornoway on Mondays and Fridays, strengthening connectivity between Glasgow and the Scottish islands
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The airline states that it is one of only two passenger airlines in Europe which Eurocontrol data indicates that travellers flying more in 2021 than they did in 2019. So, in order to support what the carrier says as a industry-leading position in the recovery from the pandemic, the airline has chosen to focus on key destinations and will therefore be ceasing services to Donegal and Jersey from the end of this summer season. The carrier states that Jersey has been disappointing this summer with poor customer demand making the route unviable. However, Loganair will continue serving Jersey via its relationship with codeshare partner Blue Islands.
Kay Ryan, Chief Commercial Officer, Loganair, said:
We’ve already taken great steps to rebuild our network after the pandemic, and we’re looking forward to consolidating this progress over the year ahead. We’re therefore increasing frequency on several routes and will be bringing back international flights for the first time in several months. Of course, it’s vital that the prudence and discipline which has helped us to successfully chart a course through the pandemic is maintained. We’ll only add flights and routes where we are wholly confident that customer demand will support such moves. Yet, after two years of scaling back services, we’re delighted to be able to look ahead to a busy summer across our network in 2022.
Every Loganair ticket includes a complimentary checked baggage allowance and a contribution towards the cost of fully offsetting the carbon emissions from the flight under Loganair’s GreenSkies environmental initiative, introduced in June 2021.
Additionally, Loganair states that passengers who are currently have a booking ‘on hold’ as a result of the pandemic and have been waiting for next summer’s schedule to go on sale to amend their original booking can email Summer22bookings@loganair.co.uk for assistance.
Meanwhile, Loganair has launched flights between Aberdeen and Dublin and also between Edinburgh and Cardiff.
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