Loganair / Flybe announce Dundee – Birmingham and Belfast flights
04.03.08
Passengers will once again be able to fly from Dundee to Belfast and Birmingham Airport after Loganair announced it would be launching new flights connecting the hubs. The routes were suspended last year by Flywhoosh when the Polish airline which provided its plane ended their deal. The Loganair flights will be operated under a franchise agreement with Flybe and will begin on May 21.
The airline will operate three daily return flights on weekdays between Dundee and Birmingham and one to Belfast City Airport. It will also operate a return flight on each route 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 and Belfast before the collapse of the Flywhoosh flights and believes they can succeed where Flywhoosh failed. He said: ‘We believe that we can establish a separate market from the Edinburgh market. We believe there's more than enough passengers wanting to use Dundee.’
Loganair operated its first scheduled flights in Dundee in 1963, after the airline's founder, Willie Logan, won the tender to build the Tay Road Bridge. Workers, engineers and architects would use the flights between the city and Edinburgh during the construction of the bridge. Mr Grier said that these initial new routes would just be the start of its new partnership with Dundee Airport.
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