Government enables greater regional air travel to London Gatwick

Eastern Airways is to start serving the London market from Cornwall Airport Newquay to London Gatwick in collaboration with the Government and Cornwall Council.

The new service operating into the major London Gatwick hub will operate daily from December 15 before increasing to double daily year-round from mid-January, helping restore regional connectivity from Cornwall and South West Devon to the UK capital.

In offering London Gatwick as the London airport option, a number of onward connecting services are opened up in addition to serving the UK’s most sought after break location of Cornwall year-round, achieving improved speed of accessibility also essential for business.

Robert Courts MP, Minister for Aviation, Maritime & Security - Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State - Department for Transport, commented: “We’re maintaining these vital transport links, including the hugely popular London to Dundee and the reinstated Newquay to London routes, for people right across the country for tourism and business travel.

“The Government is fully behind UK regional connectivity and strengthening these routes as we build back better from the pandemic.”

Adam Wheatley, Managing Director at Eastern Airways, said: “Helping solve vital regional connectivity is what Eastern Airways have done for twenty five years.

“Working in partnership with the UK Government and Cornwall Council connecting one of the most distant surface transport journeys in England to the capital via London Gatwick Airport, in a low emission aircraft fits our belief in how sustainable aviation can meet the need of the UK economy and extensive connectivity into the future.”

Stewart Wingate, chief executive, London Gatwick Airport added: “Gatwick is delighted to welcome Eastern Airways’ new service, connecting London and the South-East with Cornwall and the South-West.

“By connecting these two regions, it opens up both business and job opportunities – vital as the country looks to recover from the devastating impacts of the pandemic.”