Loganair

[737 400]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1382240722657681412

An interesting tactic from Loganair and not a route I was expecting to resume at EXT before other routes, especially after the collapse of Flybe. Is this route being supported by the Regional Air Connectivity Fund as was the case with Flybe?

Also, will the route be just summer only or all year round? Either way a convenient way for me to attend school reunions back in Norwich, without having to suffer rancid modern day plastic trains!

 

[TheLocalYokel]

An interesting tactic from Loganair and not a route I was expecting to resume at EXT before other routes, especially after the collapse of Flybe. Is this route being supported by the Regional Air Connectivity Fund as was the case with Flybe?

Also, will the route be just summer only or all year round? Either way a convenient way for me to attend school reunions back in Norwich, without having to suffer rancid modern day plastic trains!

CAA stats show that in 2019 over 24,000 used the EXT-NWI route and in 2018 the figure was nearly 31,000, so there appears to be a substantial number of travellers prepared to use it.

From what you say you are familiar with the journey from the South West to Norwich. I've only ever visited Norwich twice, the first time was in the 1960s in connection with my occupation when I travelled by train and the second was a couple of years ago when my wife and I drove there from Bristol to begin a holiday. Had we not needed the car in East Anglia we might have made the hour's drive to EXT and flown. EXT is relatively easy to reach from the southern side of Bristol where we live.

 

[737 400]

Over the past 47 years I've travelled numerous times between Exeter and Norwich, mainly by train and when I flew back from Norwich in May 2019, on an Embraer 195LR, the flight was nearly full.

 

[Silvercity]

By road Exeter to Norwich is a really tortuous drive.

 

[Jerry]

Exeter will retain a one stop link but via Norwich now not Newcastle.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1417900368273477633

 

[TheLocalYokel]

Thanks and acknowledgement to jfy1999 for the below information posted in the Loganair Airline thread.

Exeter-Norwich will double in frequency to 4 x weekly this summer.

 

[Jerry]

Extra frequency for Edinburgh

https://twitter.com/x/status/1577380653951320074

 

[Jerry]

Looks like the Edinburgh route is being cut from 13 weekly to 7 weekly as part of a series of reductions.

https://x.com/SeanM1997/status/1753444147904549021?s=20

 

[Jerry]

Loganair to terminate its Glasgow - Exeter route, with the final flights to take place on 29 March 2024

https://twitter.com/x/status/1760628531418026197

 

[Jerry]

The article does mention the South West of England but not a specific airport.

Concerns over important air routes for NHS patients

The boss of Loganair says one of the most important air routes for NHS patients is hard to sustain at current passenger levels.

www.bbc.co.uk