Daily Manchester flights cancelled as airline grounds planes from UK airport

Daily flights to Manchester have been cancelled after an airline ground planes from a UK airport. Loganair, which operates journeys to Cornwall every day to Manchester and Edinburgh has suspended 300 of its winter flights with disruption expected until next year.

The UK's largest regional airline announced the news on Monday (August 29). Those flights are completely suspended between November 2022 and March 2023.

The company called it 'a further blow to Cornwall’s connectivity' with summer routes linking Newquay with Teesside and onwards to Inverness also not returning in 2023. Planned growth on other routes is also to be redirected to other UK airports, reports CornwallLive.

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A spokesperson for Loganair said: “It’s with a heavy heart that we’ve taken the decision to withdraw our entire winter Newquay programme and to curtail our Summer 2023 plans too. Despite all of the challenges that the pandemic has delivered, we’ve worked incredibly hard over the last two years to build up our presence at Cornwall Airport Newquay.

"We’re most disappointed that short-sighted and short-term decisions by the airport’s management to incentivise unsustainable operations by other airlines leave no prospect of winter flights remaining viable, particularly against a backdrop of high fuel prices and rising inflation.

“In the meantime, we’ll be directing our efforts towards other UK regional airports such as Southampton, Exeter and Cardiff, where airport managements recognise and appreciate the enormous value that year-round, sustainable regional air services can bring to their communities and local economies.”

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