Flybe and Loganair in APD saving deal

UK and Europe regional connectivity entered a new era last week with Flybe and Loganair signing a co-operation agreement that the companies said offered passengers a broad range of new options for travel.

The deal means more than 100 new connections are now bookable via Loganair’s website for travellers between destinations such as Sumburgh and Southampton, Inverness and Exeter, Stornoway and Birmingham and Norwich and the Isle of Man.

Loganair and Flybe routes to and from Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness and Manchester – the five main airports where the airlines’ networks meet – are also included.

Passengers making a single booking for a connecting journey between Flybe and Loganair flights can check-in bags to their final destinations with the assurance they will be re-booked to the destinations free if weather or other delays cause missed connections.

The two airlines said the agreement also offers savings for passengers as they no longer have to pay multiple Air Passenger Duty (APD) charges when buying separate tickets from Loganair and Flybe to build their own connecting itinerary.

Flybe director of sales, alliances and strategic partnerships Alan Tune said: “We are pleased to add Loganair to our growing list of codeshare partners, offering passengers even more flight connection opportunities by linking our route networks.

“The agreement offers unrivalled connectivity between most of the main cities, islands and regions of the UK, and onwards to several key European cities too.”

www.flybe.com

www.loganair.co.uk

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David Starkie, London

Richard makes an interestting point. But who is liable if the first carrier is on time but the second leg is more than 3 hours late. I take it that the first carrier carries the legal liability? To add a point on APD. Flights from Inverness and Stornoway to, say, Birmingham for example, are APD free but reverse flights are not.

Richard Wiggins , UK

The risks of merging PNR(passenger name record) with through multiple destination choice checkin from point of origin would seem to change the goalpost as to increasing liability for the originating carrier sector to have to now be accountable to compensate the passenger if they misconnex with their next sector carrier under EU261/2004 Passenger Compensation Rules as the passenger is no longer a single sector low cost point-to-point person but a single ticketed multiple itinerary and checkin so in my opinion the risk of paying compensation has heightened for the originating carrier if flight is delayed from first point of embarkation and transit /onward connection is not made within excess of 3hrs delay