Letters / Flights beyond August
October visitors intending to tune up their travel arrangements for Shetland’s Fiddle and Accordion Festival or flock to Shetland’s Wool Week are finding that the only way to travel to and from Shetland is by NorthLink ferry.
Similarly tourists looking to have an autumn break in Shetland are now finding that there are no airlines offering flights to and from Shetland after 31 August 2017.
Since Flybe announced in November that they were ending their franchise agreement with Loganair it has not been possible to book flights to Shetland beyond 31 August.
Loganair’s codeshare partner BA also have also ceased offering flights to and from Shetland from 31st August.
Allen Fraser
Meal
Hamnavoe, Burra
Loganair managing director Jonathan Hinkles responds: “When Loganair’s decision to operate in its own right was announced last November, we stated that our new reservations system would be up and running in March, to take bookings for travel from 1 September onwards. We’re still very much on track to achieve that and will be providing an update on our progress at the ZetTrans meeting in Lerwick on 2 March.”
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