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3 UK domestic carriers - Aurigny, Blue Islands and Loganair have announced a new partnership to  widen their working relationship to offer seamless travel connections across their route networks; aim to coordinate their benefits for frequent flyers; and launch a new programme of co-operation to harness their collective buying power.   Existing partnerships between Blue Islands and Aurigny, and Loganair and Blue Islands, will be strengthened and a new partnership for connecting flights linking the networks of Loganair and Aurigny will be introduced. This will open-up a wide range of connections to and from Guernsey in particular, offering new connections to the north of England, Scotland and the Isle of Man at airports via including Manchester, Bristol and Birmingham where the airlines’ networks meet. Existing links between the Loganair and Blue Islands networks – centred on Southampton and Manchester today – will also be expanded. The map below shows the existing UK opera...

Flybe was previously one of Europe's largest previous carriers before its collapse in March 2020 and was the biggest airline in the domestic market in the United Kingdom - with 46.4% of seats in UK domestic regional market (excluding London). The airline had its largest bases in Birmingham and Manchester, with a significant market share in Belfast City, Exeter, Newquay and Southampton, among others. With the Flybe CEO rumoured to be coming to the UK next week and Flybe's website receiving an update in recent weeks, is the relaunch of Flybe imminent and what could we expect from the relaunch? Since the collapse  of Flybe in March 2020,  airlines including Aer Lingus, Aurigny, British Airways, Blue Islands, Eastern Airways, easyJet, Loganair and Ryanair have grown the number of UK routes. All bar two domestic routes which were operating at the time of Flybe's collapse have now been picked up - these being Edinburgh-Manchester and Exeter-London City, with both having regular r...