Loganair drop East Midlands connection
A service between Inverness and East Midlands Airport will end next month – just four months after it was officially launched.
A lack of expected corporate demand has been blamed for the move to cut the service, which operated six flights a week.
It has been confirmed that the final flight will be on Sunday, January 5, and customers who have booked to travel after that date are being offered refunds or transfers to other operators.
However the firm has remained committed to a new service, between Aberdeen and East Midlands Airport, which is due to begin in February.
In a statement, Kay Ryan, Loganair’s commercial director, said: “It’s a fact of life in the airline business that we sometimes have to take difficult decisions about which routes we can continue with.
“The corporate demand we expected has not materialised, so it is with regret that our East Midlands to Brussels service will stop after January 2 and to Inverness after January 5.
“We apologise for inconvenience to anyone who has already booked travel beyond these dates. Customers who are affected are now being contacted and offered a full refund or a transfer to an alternative carrier.
“We have every confidence in East Midlands as an airport and remain committed to our Glasgow and Edinburgh routes from there, with our new Aberdeen service due to start on February 24.”
A spokesman for Highlands and Islands Airports, which operates Inverness Airport, said: “One of our key priorities is to deliver long-term, sustainable air links via our airports.
“We continue to work closely with our airline partners to increase connectivity to meet community, business and leisure travel requirements both now and in the future.”
