{"id":64906,"date":"2015-12-02T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=abc358819a2f46639325a585b2266795"},"modified":"2015-12-02T15:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-12-02T15:27:00","slug":"news-story-new-regional-air-routes-offer-fast-journeys-across-uk-and-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64906","title":{"rendered":"News story: New regional air routes offer fast journeys across UK and Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Aviation Minister Robert Goodwill has welcomed the new domestic and international routes that will start in 2016 from regional airports across the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr>. The Chancellor announced in last week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/topical-events\/autumn-statement-and-spending-review-2015\">Spending Review<\/a> that 11 successful bidders had been awarded support from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund. These new flights will offer fast journey times within the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> and also introduce new routes to Europe for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Goodwill said: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Our smaller airports are vital engines for local economies, connecting the <abbr title=\"United Kingdom\">UK<\/abbr> and opening up opportunities. That is why the government is backing new regional air routes to drive investment and benefit hardworking people across the country.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The start-up aid bidding competition was open to airports with fewer than 5 million passengers per year and allows air routes that are not currently commercially viable today to be introduced early, giving time for airlines to build passenger numbers and deliver a more sustainable service. It is anticipated that the flights will begin from Spring 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Start-up aid of up to \u00a37 million is being provided through the Regional Air Connectivity Fund. The fund already supports strategic routes to London from Newquay and Dundee.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"image embedded\">\n<div class=\"img\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Regional airports infographic.\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/image_data\/file\/47011\/960-racf-infographic.jpg\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The full list of successful routes are:<\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Origin<\/th>\n<th>Destination<\/th>\n<th>Airline<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Carlisle<\/td>\n<td>Belfast City<\/td>\n<td>Stobart Air<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Carlisle<\/td>\n<td>Dublin<\/td>\n<td>Stobart Air<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Carlisle<\/td>\n<td>Southend<\/td>\n<td>Stobart Air<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dundee<\/td>\n<td>Amsterdam<\/td>\n<td>Flybe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Derry<\/td>\n<td>Dublin<\/td>\n<td>Citywings<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Newquay<\/td>\n<td>Leeds-Bradford<\/td>\n<td>Flybe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Norwich<\/td>\n<td>Exeter<\/td>\n<td>Flybe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Norwich<\/td>\n<td>Newcastle<\/td>\n<td>Linksair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Oxford<\/td>\n<td>Edinburgh<\/td>\n<td>Linksair<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Southampton<\/td>\n<td>Lyon<\/td>\n<td>Flybe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Southampton<\/td>\n<td>Munich<\/td>\n<td>Flybe<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"contact \" id=\"contact_1015\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<h3>Aviation media enquiries<\/h3>\n<div class=\"vcard contact-inner\">\n<div class=\"email-url-number\">\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Press enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 3118\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Out of hours<\/span><br \/>\n              020 7944 4292\n            <\/p>\n<p class=\"tel\">\n              <span class=\"type\">Public enquiries<\/span><br \/>\n              0300 330 3000\n            <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aviation Minister Robert Goodwill backs routes to bring new business and visitors for whole country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64906"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}