UK regional airline Loganair is to create a new base at Southampton Airport in southern England allowing it to launch a key domestic route to Manchester.
The Glasgow-based carrier said it will base two ATR-72 600 aircraft at Southampton, with the first due to arrive in October.
The move will allow Loganair to start a new daily route from Southampton to Manchester from 26 October, which will be timed to connect with the airline’s flights from Manchester to Inverness, Aberdeen and the Isle of Man.
Meanwhile, capacity on the carrier’s existing Southampton-Edinburgh route will increase from 49 to 72 passengers per flight by using larger aircraft.
Loganair will also add a new daily route from Manchester to Exeter to its schedule from 26…


























