Late season 93% rise in non-EU passengers
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 […]
Travel Weekly Globes voted for by travel agents
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 voted the best in British Travel Awards
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 […]
Holidays4U add to the options in resorts near Dalaman
Plans are already being made for Exeter Airport’s summer 2011 services; a season when the specialist Turkish holiday company Holidays4U will be adding to the options in resorts near Dalaman. Exeter Airport will again serve three Turkish airports in the summer with Dalaman being the most popular; and now Holidays4U with their Onur Air […]
More choice, more flights, more routes, increased frequency
Flybe’s new codeshare agreement with Air France is now giving customers an exciting package of more choice, more flights, more routes, increased frequency and enhanced services to and from France. All Flybe Exeter/Paris services will now operate out of Terminal 2E at Paris Charles de Gaulle airport, providing customers with seamless and easy access to […]
Exeter nominated for BATA award at AOA conference
Exeter International Airport has was shortlisted for an excellence award in the British Air Transport Association (BATA) category for airport’s handling less than six million passengers. The annual awards were the centrepiece of the Airport Operators Association (AOA) Conference Dinner in London on 25 October and they were attended by Exeter Airport’s managing director Jamie […]
Leaflets cover subjects from support to travel insurance
Cancer information will be available to passengers and staff at Exeter International Airport for the next three months as part of the year-long partnership between the airport and Macmillan Cancer Support. A Macmillan ‘Info-point’ will be situated in the departures area of the airport and will contain leaflets about a range of cancers and about […]
Light aircraft take to the skies to give children a day they will never forget
The second annual Goodridge Children’s Hospice South West Flyday will take place on Sunday 10 October, and will see a fleet of light aircraft and volunteer pilots take to the skies to give children with life-limiting illnesses a day they will never forget. Exeter company Goodridge is teaming up with Children’s Hospice South West to […]
The return of troops from Afghanistan marks launch for 2011 charity
The return of over one hundred 40 Commando personnel from Afghanistan has marked the launch of Exeter Airport’s charity of the year for 2011; Help for Heroes. An Airbus A340-300, one of the largest aircraft to use the airport in its 70 year history, touched down at 2pm on 6 October bringing home the first […]
£4,000 from this summer's official online car park bookings
A local woodland charity is benefiting from car park bookings at Exeter Airport and is now able to better support a wide variety of Devon’s wildlife at risk. The Offwell Woodland and Wildlife Trust near Honiton have been given nearly £4,000 following the commitment from the airport to donate £1 for each of this summer’s […]
