Loganair

Loganair is a Scottish regional airline based in Glasgow and main base at Glasgow International Airport.

History

Loganair was founded in 1962 by Duncan Logan as an air taxi company to transport the workers to construction sites of Duncan Logan Construction Ltd. ,. After his death in 1966, the company was expanded by his successors to a regular airline. The aim was to connect smaller cities with Scottish Glasgow: 1967 Orkney Islands, Inner Hebrides in 1968 and 1969 Shetland Islands.

In 1983 began the British Midland Bank, 75 percent of the shares and transferred the management of British Midland Airways.

Signed in 1994, Loganair and British Airways sign codeshare agreement. Since the destinations are served in the colors of BA. The company has since been bought back by three managers and is independent again. In October 2008, the franchise agreement with British Airways ran out, under a code share agreement but continued to work. Beginning of 2008, a franchise agreement was then concluded with Flybe. Loganair flies many connections between Scotland and England since in their colors.

In July 2011 it was announced that the Scottish Loganair Suckling Airways (formerly Scot Airways ) has bought.

Destinations

Destinations are the Loganair Scottish airports such as Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Inverness. A dense network there in the Orkney Islands, where in addition to the capital, Kirkwall also grass and beach airports are served. In addition, the Shetland Islands, the interior and the Outer Hebrides, as well as Dublin, Derry and the Isle of Man operated. During the year 2008, new connections from Dundee to Birmingham and Belfast and from the Shetland Islands were added to Bergen in Norway. Another major part of the objectives of making flights on behalf of the airline flybe from.

Loganair offers on behalf of British Airways at the shortest scheduled flight in the world line between the two north-western islands of Orkney. The flight BA 8872 to eastern island of Westray Papa Westray ( Papay ) lasts for just over 1.5 nautical miles ( 2.9 km ) planned two minutes ( Westray departure 09:39, arrival 09:41 ), and is several times a week between the two grass runways performed. With a good wind, the pilot already made ​​the record of only 56 seconds, but in the frequent hurricanes the flight can take up to 12 minutes. For this flight, you can book tickets; the pilot collected directly from the £ 14 max. 8 passengers of the Britten- Norman BN -2 Islander. The price of £ 7 per minute exceeds the ticket prices of Concorde flights (as flight schedule from 29 March 2009).

Fleet

As of December 2013, the fleet of 26 aircraft consists of Loganair:

• 02 de Havilland Canada DHC 6-310 Twin Otter
• 06 Dornier 328-100 (2 operated for Flybe, 1 for CityJet )
• 14 Saab 340B ( operated for Flybe )
• 02 Saab 340F ( cargo aircraft )