24 Facts About Loganair

Loganair is a Scottish regional airline based at Glasgow Airport near Paisley, Scotland.

Loganair was established on 1 February 1962 by Willie Logan of the Logan Construction Company Ltd, operating as its air charter arm with a Piper PA-23 Aztec based at Edinburgh.

In 1967, Loganair took delivery of three Britten-Norman Islander twin-engine eight-seat light commuter airliners and began regular flights between the Orkney Islands, and started operating in Shetland in 1970.

Between 1968 and 1983, the company was owned by the Royal Bank of Scotland, Towards the end of this period, Loganair bought Short 360 and Fokker F27 Friendship aircraft.

Loganair brought jet aircraft into the fleet with two British Aerospace 146s.

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In 1997, with Loganair now consisting of six aircraft and 44 staff, a management buy-out occurred.

In June 2005, Loganair was awarded a contract from the Irish Government to operate a daily return service from Knock, County Mayo to Dublin.

Until October 2008, Loganair was a British Airways franchisee, operating flights sold through BA using BA flight codes.

Loganair became a franchise airline of Flybe, operating in the Flybe colours.

On 8 July 2011, it was announced that Loganair had agreed to purchase Cambridge based ScotAirways.

On 21 November 2016, Flybe and Loganair announced that their franchise agreement would terminate on 31 August 2017.

Loganair later relaunched its website without renewed interline agreements with Flybe or Aer Lingus.

Loganair signed a codeshare agreement with British Airways, effective from 1 September 2017, allowing passengers to book through flights onto BA's global network.

In February 2019, following Flybmi's cessation of operations, Loganair announced that it was to take over Flybmi's routes from Aberdeen to Bristol, Oslo and Esbjerg, from Newcastle to Stavanger and Brussels, and from City of Derry Airport to London-Stansted.

In March 2020, following Flybe's cessation of operations, Loganair announced that it was to take over the following Flybe routes from Scotland and Newcastle: Aberdeen-Belfast City; Aberdeen-Birmingham; Aberdeen-Jersey; Aberdeen-Manchester; Edinburgh-Cardiff; Edinburgh-Exeter; Edinburgh-Manchester; Edinburgh-Newquay; Edinburgh-Southampton; Glasgow-Exeter; Glasgow-Southampton; Inverness-Belfast City; Inverness-Birmingham; Inverness-Jersey; Newcastle-Exeter; Newcastle-Southampton.

In October 2022, Loganair confirmed that the existing sole owners, brothers Stephen and Peter Bond, were seeking a buyer to act as the company's "custodian for the next generation".

Part of Loganair's operations includes the world's shortest scheduled commercial route, between Westray Airport and Papa Westray Airport, a distance of 1.

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In June 2018, it was announced that Loganair planned to add at least a further two Embraer ERJ-145 aircraft for the start of the summer 2019 schedule.

Loganair planned to eventually use the Embraer ERJ-145 aircraft to launch new routes to European airports that were not then served from Glasgow.

Loganair planned to introduce electric aircraft to the Orkney Islands by 2021 due to the short distance between the islands that would make such flights possible.

Loganair continued to follow its fleet simplification programme through 2019 by phasing out the small subfleets of Dornier 328 and Saab 2000s to focus on the Saab 340 and Embraer ERJ families in the near term before the gradual phase-in of the ATR 42 fleet.

Loganair returned the last of its Saab 2000 aircraft to the lessor on 25 March 2020.