Loganair has suspended all operations at Newquay Airport in Cornwall this winter and plans to scale back flights from the airport in 2023.

The airline’s route from Newquay to Teesside and onwards to Inverness will not return next year and Loganair said that “planned growth on other routes is to be redirected to other UK airports” including Cardiff, Exeter and. Southampton

Around 300 flights will be cancelled over the winter season, with the suspension of flights to Edinburgh, Newcastle and Manchester, which continues on to Aberdeen.

The decision follows the announcement of the return of Flybe to Newquay airport, with flights to Heathrow and Manchester, due to launch on 30 October.

While Loganair did not specifically mention Flybe, the carrier said that it was “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”.

The airline said it had contacted all customers with forward winter bookings on the affected routes, to offer a change of travel date or refund options.

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