Loganair, the UK’s leading regional airline, has announced that it is opening its tenth base at Southampton Airport, generating new jobs, specifically for pilots, cabin crew and engineers from the local area, and offering new flight connections to and from this strategically important and prosperous region.
The Southampton base allows the airline to efficiently serve southern mainland and island communities and will increase the number of seats available through the airline by over 140,000 per year. It is planned that the base will be operated by two ATR-72 600 aircraft, with the first aircraft arriving in October 2025.
In addition to the news of this new base for the airline, Loganair has announced plans to launch two new routes, as well as increasing capacity for one of its existing flights. From October 26th, new routes from Southampton to Manchester and Manchester to Exeter have been added to the airline’s timetable, while the capacity of aircraft serving the popular Southampton to Edinburgh route has been increased from 49 to 72 passengers. New routes via Manchester to Inverness and Aberdeen will also become available.
The new Southampton to Manchester route is timed to meet key connections to Inverness, Aberdeen and Isle of Man. This new route enhances onward connectivity at Manchester via existing partnerships with Emirates, Qatar Airways, Turkish Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Aer Lingus. Offering customers the benefits of single ticket and through checked luggage to global destinations. Further affirming Loganair’s foothold on offering unrivalled connectivity.
This new Southampton base places Loganair in a strategically important and prosperous region of the country, opening the possibility of additional future growth.