Loganair issues expanded schedule for winter 2022-23

An expanded schedule for next winter released by Loganair reflects the regional carrier’s growing confidence in travel recovery from Covid-19.

Flights can be booked up to a year ahead on more than 70 routes throughout the UK, Ireland and Scandinavia.

 New routes launching this summer – Edinburgh to City of Derry, Aberdeen to Oslo, Aberdeen-Teesside-Southampton – continue throughout the winter season.

 More flights are planned on UK regional routes including Edinburgh-Cardiff and Aberdeen-Manchester-Newquay, with up to six flights a week on each.

 The winter schedule includes:

• Introduction of larger 72-seat ATR72-600 turboprop aircraft on key routes to and from the Isle of Man and Aberdeen;

• Extra weekend services on key UK domestic routes from Edinburgh, Glasgow and Newcastle to Southampton;

• Christmas and new year flights on seasonal routes including Inverness-Dublin, Teesside-Dublin and Newcastle-Newquay together with more Christmas flights on routes to the Scottish islands and to City of Derry;

• Extra flights in late January 2023 for Shetland’s UpHellyAa Viking fire festival, which is taking place in Lerwick for the first time in three years;

• Services to Norway continuing with routes from Newcastle and Edinburgh to Bergen and Stavanger being joined by a new Aberdeen-Oslo service.

Loganair chief commercial officer Kay Ryan said: “The scale of our winter 2022-23 schedule reflects both our growing confidence in the recovery of air travel after the pandemic and the range of services that our customers have now come to expect of us.

“The launch of our schedule – over eight months ahead – also enables customers to plan and book Loganair flights to connect to worldwide itineraries offered by our growing range of airline partners.”

Loganair has added new interline arrangements with Singapore Airlines, Finnair and Ethiopian Airlines in recent weeks in addition to the expansion of a partnership with British Airways announced earlier this month.