Loganair
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| IATA code : | LM |
| ICAO code : | LOG |
| Call sign : | LOGAN |
| Founding: | 1962 |
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Paisley , Scotland
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| Home airport : | Glasgow International |
| Company form: | Limited |
| IATA prefix code : | 682 |
| Fleet size: | 46 |
| Aims: | national and continental |
| Website: | www.loganair.co.uk |
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Loganair is a Scottish regional airline with its headquarters and main base in Paisley at Glasgow International Airport .
history
Loganair was founded by Duncan Logan in 1962 as an air taxi company to transport workers to the construction sites of Duncan Logan Construction Ltd. , founded. After his death in 1966, the company was expanded into a regular airline by his successors. The aim was to connect smaller Scottish towns with Glasgow: the Orkney Islands in 1967 , the Inner Hebrides in 1968 and the Shetland Islands in 1969 .
In 1983, the British Midland Bank bought 75 percent of the shares and transferred the management of British Midland Airways .
In 1994 Loganair and British Airways signed a code share agreement . Since then, destinations have been flown to in the colors of BA. The company has since been bought back by three managers and is independent again. The franchise agreement with British Airways expired in October 2008, but the company continues to work together under a code share agreement. At the beginning of 2008, a franchise agreement was signed with Flybe . Loganair has been flying many connections between Scotland and England in their colors since then.
In July 2011 it was announced that Loganair had bought the Scottish Suckling Airways (formerly: Scot Airways).
Since 2015 Loganair has belonged to the Airline Investment Holding of the brothers Peter and Stephen Bond, which also owns Flybmi .
At the end of 2016 it was announced that the franchise agreement with Flybe would end on August 31, 2017 and Loganair would fly again under its own name from September 1, 2017.
Destinations
Loganair's flight destinations are Scottish airports such as Edinburgh , Aberdeen and Inverness . There is a dense network on the Orkney Islands, where in addition to the capital Kirkwall , grass and beach airports are also served. In addition, the Shetland Islands, the Inner and Outer Hebrides as well as Dublin , Derry and the Isle of Man are served. In the course of 2008 new connections were opened from Dundee to Birmingham and Belfast and from the Shetland Islands to Bergen in Norway . Another large part of the destinations were flights on behalf of the former airline flybe .
Loganair offers the world's shortest scheduled scheduled flight between the two northwestern islands of the Orkney . The flight from Westray to the eastern island of Papa Westray (Papay) takes a good 1.5 nautical miles (2.9 km) as scheduled two minutes (departure Westray 08:52, arrival 08:54) and is operated several times a day between the two grass runways. In good winds the pilot managed the record of only 56 seconds, but with frequent hurricanes the flight can take up to 12 minutes. The price of £ 7 per minute exceeds the ticket prices for Concorde flights (as of March 29, 2009). On October 31, 2016, the one millionth passenger was welcomed on the route, which has been in operation since 1967.
The flights to Düsseldorf and Hanover ended in 2019.
fleet
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Current fleet
As of March 2020, the Loganair fleet consists of 46 aircraft:
| plane | number | ordered | Seats | Remarks |
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| Passenger planes | ||||
| ATR 42-500 | 1 | - | 46 | |
| ATR 72-600 | 2 | - | 70 | |
| Britten-Norman Islander | 2 | - | 8th | Only flies within the Orkney Islands |
| de Havilland Canada DHC-6-310 Twin Otter | 1 | - | 19th | |
| Embraer ERJ 135 | 4th | - | 37 | |
| Embraer ERJ 145 | 13 | - | 49 | |
| Saab 340B | 12 | - | 34 | |
| Saab 2000 | 5 | - | 50 | |
| Viking Air DHC-6-400 Twin Otter | 2 | - | 19th | Operated on behalf of the Scottish Government |
| Cargo planes | ||||
| Saab 340AF | 2 | - | - | |
| Saab 340BF | 2 | - | - | |
| total | 46 | |||
Former aircraft types
Loganair previously used the following types of aircraft:
- BAC 1-11
- BAe 146
- BAe ATP
- BAe Jetstream 31
- BAe Jetstream 41
- de Havilland Canada DHC-7
- Dornier 328
- Embraer EMB 110
- Fokker F-27
- Short Skyvan
- Short 330
- Short 360
- Vickers Viscount
Incidents
From 1962 to February 2020 Loganair suffered 7 total write-offs of aircraft. In 4 of them 6 people were killed. Full list:
- On May 15, 1979 a Britten-Norman BN-2A Trislander Mk III-1 of Loganair ( aircraft registration G-BCYC ) was irreparably damaged at Aberdeen Airport ( Scotland ) for unknown reasons. There was no personal injury. The wreck of the machine was taken over by Aurigny Air Services , another Trislander operator.
- On June 1, 1984 a Britten-Norman BN-2A-26 Islander of Loganair (G-BDVW) touched down 140 meters in front of the runway during an attempt to land at Sanday Airfield ( Orkney Islands , Scotland) and collided with barbed wire during the following go-around attempt, a small gravel pond and a ditch, which damaged the machine beyond repair. It came from Stronsay Airport, only 11 kilometers away . The causes of the accident were determined to be the continuation of the visual flight at a cloud height of only 60 to 90 meters and the relative inexperience of the pilot. All 8 occupants, the pilot and 7 passengers, survived the accident.
- On June 12, 1986, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter of Loganair (G-BGPC) was flown 6.8 kilometers southeast of the destination into the field on the approach to Islay Airport ( Inner Hebrides , Scotland). Despite a instructed altitude of 1,100 meters (3,600 feet), the pilots continued to fly by sight in fog and drizzle until they crashed into a small hill at a height of 109 meters. In this CFIT ( Controlled flight into terrain ) one of the two pilots was killed; the other 15 inmates, including 14 passengers, survived.
- On May 19, 1996, a Britten-Norman BN-2A-26 Islander of Loganair (G-BEDZ) crashed 1500 meters from the runway on the second attempt at Lerwick / Tingwall Airport ( Scotland ). On the turn into the final approach , the pilot flew the machine into a right turn with a 70 ° bank angle and about 20 ° pitch. The aircraft collided with the terrain at a speed that was twice as high. The pilot was killed, the two passengers survived.
- On February 27, 2001, a Loganair Short 360 (G-BNMT) suffered a double engine failure shortly after taking off from Edinburgh Airport ( Scotland ). The pilots tried in the near Firth of Forth a ditching perform, the aircraft broke. The machine was to be flown to Belfast on behalf of Royal Mail Post and Freight . The cause of the accident was snow in the engine intakes, which had accumulated during the ground time, came off a few seconds after the engine de-icing was switched on and almost completely blocked the air supply. Both pilots, the only occupants, were killed (see also Loganair flight 670A ) .
- On March 15, 2005 a Britten-Norman BN-2B-26 Islander of Loganair (G-BOMG) was flown below the prescribed minimum descent altitude on the approach to Campbeltown Airport ( Scotland ) in bad weather . The machine broke on impact and sank into the sea 14 kilometers west-northwest of the destination airfield. Both occupants, the pilot and the passenger, were killed. Contributing factors to this CFIT ( Controlled flight into terrain ) were fatigue, lack of flying practice during the previous 32 days and overloading of the only pilot on board.
- On January 2, 2015, the pilots of a Saab 340B from Loganair (G-LGNL ) failed to keep the aircraft on the runway in strong crosswinds when taking off from Stornoway Airport ( Outer Hebrides , Scotland). Even after the machine had left the runway and raced over grass and a closed runway, the captain left the thrust levers at full throttle and only pulled them back after the nose gear had collapsed. The 29 occupants, 3 crew members and 26 passengers survived the total loss of the machine.
See also
Web links
- Loganair website of the (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ loganair.co.uk - Loganair acquires UK charter specialist Suckling Airways ( Memento July 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) July 8, 2011
- ↑ https://flyinginireland.com/2016/02/loganair-now-part-of-airline-investments-limited-ail-continues-to-innovate-in-a-niche-market-as-ceo-to-step -down /
- ↑ Stefan Eiselin: Scottish airline dares to go it alone . aerotelegraph.com, December 2, 2016, accessed June 14, 2017.
- ↑ World's shortest flight celebrates its millionth passenger , in: The Guardian , November 1, 2016, accessed November 1, 2016
- ↑ Loganair shuns German cities. In: simpleflying.com. June 17, 2020, accessed on June 24, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af Loganair steps in to safeguard UK air routes after Flybe collapse. In: loganair.co.uk. March 5, 2020, accessed on March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c Thibault Lapers: Loganair leaves Brussels. In: aviation24.be. March 6, 2020, accessed on March 9, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Loganair spreads its wings with announcement for six new routes. In: loganair.co.uk. September 9, 2019, accessed January 20, 2020 .
- ^ A b Toby Emes: Loganair cancels flights to and from Southend and Aberdeen. In: echo-news.co.uk. February 20, 2020, accessed March 5, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d Loganair launches two new jet routes from Aberdeen. In: loganair.co.uk. May 3, 2019, accessed on May 12, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d New Flights to Cornwall Airport Newquay. In: loganair.co.uk. October 3, 2019, accessed on January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Further boost for UK connectivity as Aberdeen-Southampton services resume. In: loganair.co.uk. March 9, 2020, accessed on March 11, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d e Stefan Morkis: Dundee Airport to introduce new routes to London City and Belfast. In: thecourier.co.uk. December 20, 2019, accessed January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ Passenger flights return to Carlisle airport after 25 years. In: bbc.com. March 4, 2019, accessed on March 14, 2019 .
- ^ A b Loganair to take on Flybe route from Isle of Man to Liverpool. In: itv.com. March 10, 2020, accessed on March 11, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Shan Ross: Loganair launch two new international flights from Edinburgh Airport. In: scotsman.com. December 16, 2019, accessed January 20, 2020 .
- ↑ a b 'Dismay' at the end of Wick to Edinburgh flights. In: bbc.com. March 13, 2020, accessed on March 16, 2020 .
- ^ Norwich Redundancy Proposals. In: loganair.co.uk. December 3, 2019, accessed January 20, 2020 .
- ^ Mark Caswell: Loganair to operate Isle of Man-London City route for British Airways. In: businesstraveller.com. August 17, 2018, accessed March 2, 2019 .
- ↑ caa.co.uk - Official aircraft register (English) accessed on March 6, 2020
- ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1966–2007.
- ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Sutton, UK, 2008-2013.
- ↑ Loganair accident statistics , Aviation Safety Network , accessed on March 6, 2020.
- ↑ Accident report BN Trislander G-BCYC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 9, 2020.
- ^ Accident report BN-2 Islander G-BDVW , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 9, 2020.
- ^ Accident report DHC-6 G-BGPC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 9, 2020.
- ^ Accident report BN-2 Islander G-BEDZ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 9, 2020.
- ^ Accident report Short 360 G-BNMT , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 9, 2020.
- ^ Accident report BN-2 Islander G-BOMG , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 9, 2020.
- ^ Accident report Saab 340 G-LGNL , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 9, 2020.
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