UK’s Loganair returns to international market

Loganair (LM, Glasgow Int’l) has announced its return to the international flying with scheduled services between Aberdeen Dyce and Dublin Int’l, Ireland due to begin on September 5, 2021.

The Scottish regional carrier plans to operate the route 4x weekly, increasing to daily in late March 2022 and then to 9x weekly the month after. Flights will be onboard E145s. Loganair is replacing Stobart Air (RE, Dublin Int’l), which operated the route under the Aer Lingus Regional franchise until its sudden collapse earlier this month.

“It fits well with our increasingly dominant presence as the UK’s premier regional airline and develops our growing relationship with IAG International Airlines Group through our codeshare with British Airways. We now look forward to enhancing our connectivity further as we work closely with Aer Lingus,” Chief Commercial Officer Kay Ryan said.

According to the ch-aviation capacities module, Loganair’s current network serves a total of 30 destinations entirely within the United Kingdom and British Crown Dependencies (Isle of Man and Jersey). It plans to reactivate services from Glasgow Int’l to Donegal in Ireland on July 24 and from Aberdeen to Esbjerg in Denmark on August 25, the ch-aviation schedules module shows. Loganair said it would also relaunch services to Dublin, Inverness in Scotland, and Teesside in England in the Summer 2022 season. During 2020, Loganair also served Bergen and Stavanger in Norway but has yet to indicate whether and when it would resume these routes. It has not disclosed any plans to serve mainland Europe other than Scandinavia.