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Canadian Affair starts its 2011 programme of Exeter to Toronto flights on Wednesday 18 May.  This is the 18th successive year of flights from Exeter using the airline Air Transat and the 23rd year the route has been on offer from the airport. The weekly service to Toronto, which will depart every Wednesday until the […]

This Easter Saturday, Exeter Airport will welcome the first ever direct flight on a scheduled route from Germany when Flybe’s Dusseldorf route commences. Airport staff will check-in dozens of outbound travellers for the inaugural flight to Dusseldorf before turning their attention to the first arriving aircraft with fifty German visitors.  Many of the inbound passengers […]

The armed forces charity Help for Heroes has benefited from Exeter Airport’s Colossal Cake Sale event at the weekend when £1,350 was raised. Members of staff were asked support the airport’s adopted charity for 2011 on the 1st and 2nd April, by making and buying cakes for the event and assisting with the running of […]

The valuable work of local environmental and education charity, the Offwell Woodland & Wildlife Trust, has received its second support donation from Exeter International Airport in a scheme that allows motorists to book parking and contribute to the Trust’s work in east Devon. At the recent presentation of a cheque for £3,630, Stephen Ayres, Exeter […]

With the Chinese New Year being marked over a two week period from today (03 February), the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) is calling on all organisers of sky lantern releases to register the event in advance so that airports such as Exeter can warn airspace users of the tea light powered paper lanterns in […]

Flybe has won Best Short-Haul Airline and has been placed in the Top 5 for Best Airline Worldwide at the 2011 Business Travel Awards Flybe, Europe’s leading regional airline and the UK’s Number One Domestic carrier has been named Best Short-Haul Airline for the second consecutive year at the 2011 Business Travel Awards held in […]

Marco Pierre White will be opening a restaurant at Exeter International Airport’s new hotel development at later this year. The top chef has announced that an outlet called Frankie’s Bar and Grill, a restaurant brand launched in Knightsbridge in 2004 with his friend, the jockey and horse racing legend Frankie Detorri, will be become the […]

Travellers flying from Exeter on charter holiday routes have significantly increased year-on-year in each of the past three months, and boosted the airport’s charter passenger traffic by 22 per cent on the same months compared to 2009. The 93 per cent rise in non-EU passenger numbers for the end of the summer made Exeter, according […]

Exeter Airport has been nominated for ‘Best UK Airport’ in the prestigious Travel Weekly Globe Awards. The Globe Travel Awards are unique, as the trade sector awards are voted for solely by travel agents, with readers of Associated Newspapers voting in the Consumer Awards, providing a mandate from both trade and consumer audiences.   Voting […]

Canadian Affair, the UK’s largest tour operator to Canada, has topped the British Travel Awards’ public poll to win the prestigious “Best Tour Operator to Canada” award. The award comes shortly after Canadian Affair unveiled its summer 2011 programme which includes the eighteenth year for their Air Transat flights from Exeter to Toronto, 23 years […]