Aberdeen to Newquay – fast!

FLYBE has launched its new weekly summer flights between Aberdeen in Scotland and Newquay in Cornwall in south-west England.

Taking two hours, the new Saturday flight service takes approximately nine hours less compared to travelling by car. With the shortest train journeys from Aberdeen to Newquay taking more than 14 hours, including up to four changes, travellers choosing to fly can save almost 24 extra hours of holiday time.

Vincent Hodder, Flybe’s chief revenue officer, says: ‘Our new route to Newquay from Aberdeen opens up a whole new part of the country to travellers who might previously have been put off by the long journey times. We have all experienced driving or taking the train at peak holiday times, often an extremely stressful experience, especially for families taking a well-earned break.’

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Pirate alert …

PIRATE’S QUEST NEWQUAY has a new storyline for 2016. Visitors will be taken back 1706, the dawn of the Republic of Pirates. The hour-long “interactive experience” will be open for half term previews (February 13-21). 

The Pirate’s Quest is an hour-long walk-through experience enabling visitors to feel, hear, smell, and see #Cornwall's legends and history.

Admission: £9.95 adult, £8.95 senior/student, £6.95 children (3-16), under 3s free. No access for wheelchairs or push-chairs.

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Coming up in Cornwall …

St Ives September Festival – September 12-26: The biggest arts event in the South-West sees a plethora of talent performing around the town. More than 300 events in two weeks of music, exhibitions, walks, talks, workshops, films, comedy, theatre, plays, stories, and poetry. www.stivesseptemberfestival.co.uk

Newquay Fish Festival – September 11-13: In its 13th year, the festival fuses Newquay's holiday scene and its fishing community and attracts more than 40,000 visitors. www.newquayfishfestival.co.uk

Looe Music Festival – September 18-20: Playing host to bands including Jools Holland & His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra and The Proclaimers, the stage overlooks a beach lined by steep cliffs and the harbour. Expect an eclectic mix of high energy ‘keep you on the move’ music delivered back-to-back from either end of the beach and around the harbour, plus acts on every street corner, and in every bar and restaurant. www.looemusic.co.uk

Great Cornish Food Festival, Lemon Quay, Truro. – September 25-27: Local celebrated seafood chef and staunch festival supporter, Nathan Outlaw, headlines a packed timetable of master classes, cooking challenges, and tastings. More than 60 exhibitors and 30 food experts will be taking part in what is said to be the largest event anywhere dedicated 100% to Cornish food and drink. www.greatcornishfood.co.uk/festival

Falmouth Oyster Festival – October 8-11: The festival celebrates the start of the oyster dredging season, quality of Cornish Seafood and, in particular, dredging by sail and hand punt. The four-day festival is packed with cookery demonstrations by leading local chefs, with oysters, seafood, wine, and ale to sample, plus children's shell painting, entertainment in the form of sea shanties, a town parade, live music, an oyster shucking competition, and Falmouth’s Working Boat race. 

www.falmouthoysterfestival.co.uk

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Up in the air …

Ryanair launches Sofia flights – Ryanair is to start a daily service from London Stansted to Sofia, Bulgaria, next May. The airline plans to release 100,000 Stansted-Sofia seats for sale from £19.99 in September and October.

Sofia will be Ryanair’s second Bulgarian airport, following Plovdiv (which has a four- weekly service to London Stansted).

That’s a very, very long flight – Emirates has revealed its plan to launch services from Dubai to Panama City in February. It will be the planet’s longest non-stop commercial flight – 17 hours, 35 minutes westbound.

Flights to the sun – United Airlines is launching a non-stop weekly service from Newark (New Jersey/New York) to St. Kitts in the Caribbean in December.

Newquay Airport passenger numbers up – The latest data released by Newquay Cornwall Airport has revealed a significant increase in passengers using the airport for business and pleasure. More than 71,000 people used it between April and June, a 26% increase on the same period last year.

BA adds Costa Rica to long-haul schedule – Starting on May 4 next year British Airways will offer non-stop flights between Gatwick and the Costa Rican capital of San Jose … twice-weekly for summer months, rising to three time a week in the winter.
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Flybe announces winter schedule from Exeter; expands services from Newquay

#FLYBE has announced its 2015-16 winter schedule to and from Exeter. The airline also announced an agreement with Emirates enabling expanded services from Newquay Airport.

The winter schedule for Exeter includes 12 routes with a choice of up to 158 flights a week available for travel between October 25, 2015 and March 26, 2016. The airline has also confirmed the extension of its summer sun routes to Alicante, Faro, and Malaga until November 1, 2015, and the return of popular Saturday ski routes to Chambery and Geneva.

Following a codeshare agreement between Flybe and Emirates, passengers at Newquay Airport will now be able to travel to 145 destinations across six continents in 84 countries on a single ticket.

Al Titterington, managing director, Newquay Cornwall Airport, said: ‘This codeshare agreement between Flybe and Emirates will provide passengers in Cornwall with the freedom to travel anywhere on the Emirates global network at the click of a button, and is another exciting development in the continued growth of Newquay Cornwall Airport.’

Passengers will be able to check their bags at Newquay and not have to collect them until their final destination. Flybe’s current schedule from Newquay will allow passengers to connect to five Emirates services departing daily from airports across the UK including Birmingham, Manchester, and London Gatwick.

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Stansted-Newquay route boosted

FLYBE has announced additional flights between Stansted and Newquay during the summer season.

Daily flights will operate between May 16 and September 29, with a 3.35pm departure from Stansted during the week and 12.50pm departure on weekends. The other leg departs from Newquay at 1.45pm on weekdays and 11am at weekends.

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Beware – pirates in town!

PIRATE'S QUEST will be a new visitor attraction in Newquay, Cornwall, next February.

Captain Calico Jack and other rogues will act as guides through the coastal caves and murky streets of 18^th century Cornwall. Junior pirates can pick up a treasure map to help them find clues and claim pirate booty.

Pirate's Quest has theatrical smoke effects and strobe lighting; children must be accompanied by an adult; and there will be no wheelchair or push-chair access.

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UK government approves funding deal..........

UK government supports Gatwick-Newquay flights; funding deal approved for four years

A FOUR-YEAR funding deal has been agreed by the UK’s Department of Transport to maintain flights between Newquay in Cornwall and London Gatwick.

The government is to provide £2.5 million for the air link, with a further £300,000 coming from Cornwall County Council.

Flybe will operate three times a day during the week and twice daily at weekends.

The state money has come from the Regional Air Connectivity Fund which in June secured a two-year deal for flights between Stansted and Dundee.

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