First Assistance Dog’s Flight

Exeter Airport has been approved to handle assistance dogs

The first dog to travel with a passenger on a commercial service from Exeter International Airport checked-in this morning (16 November 2009) for the Flybe flight to Alicante in Spain. ‘Vickie’, a Guild Dogs for the Blind trained Labrador, escorted her visually handicapped owner of just three months, Lin Chave to the airport and onto []

New Shuttle Service

Three new eight seat car park minibuses

The car park shuttle service for Exeter Airport’s passengers has been enhanced with the adoption of three new eight seat minibuses. APCOA, the airport’s car park management company, has opted to change from their original configuration of two 18 seat minibuses for efficiency and environmental reasons.  The diesel engines of the Mercedes Sprinter have Euro-4 []

First Exeter PALMAIR flight

A series of Boeing 737 Palmair flights to winter hot spots

The first ever departure of a Palmair aircraft from Exeter at the weekend marked the start of a winter series of flights to Tunisia in North Africa and both Palmair’s managing director, David Skillicorn and Exeter Airport’s managing director Jamie Christon were there to wish passengers a good flight. A series of Boeing 737 Palmair []

Exeter’s Toronto Service returns for 22nd year

The summer Toronto flights will return in 2010

Canadian Affair, the UK’s largest tour operator to Canada, has announced that it will offer weekly flights to Toronto from Exeter for its seventeenth year and operate a service every Wednesday from 19 May until 29 September with prices from £129 one-way. Exeter Airport’s Managing Director, Jamie Christon said; “The confirmation that Canadian Affair will []

UK’s largest ever shipment of fish

Over 100 fish fly in - including sharks up to three metres long

Over 100 fish, including sharks up to three metres long, were off-loaded from an aircraft at Exeter International Airport this weekend when the largest ever consignment of live fish arrived from Barbados via Heathrow en route to the National Marine Aquarium in Plymouth. The National Marine Aquarium chartered a Boeing 767 to fly 19 tanks []

Airport website visits soar in wet week

100,000 visits in July

Record website figures of 100,651 for the month of July have been released by Exeter Airport together with the first five days of August.  This month’s statistics show that the weather probably contributed to the 15,000 users who where looking for late deals and of July’s visitors, over a quarter (26,760) viewed the summer holidays []

Dalaman Deal Done

Boeing 757 flights to Turkey from May 2010

The result of several months of negotiations between Exeter International Airport and Thomas Cook, one of the world’s leading tour operators, have been revealed today (16 July 2009) with the announcement that a 26 week series of Boeing 757 flights will operate to Dalaman in Turkey from May 2010. The Thomas Cook 235 seat aircraft []

Flybe – is the UK’s No1 domestic airline

CAA April/May statistics confirm 3 major milestones

Exeter Airport based Flybe, is now the UK’s number one domestic airline following CAA April/May statistics which confirm it has achieved three major corporate milestones: The Flybe brand carried the largest number of passengers in the UK domestic marketplace by three clear percentage points Flybe, even without its franchise partner, Loganair, carried more domestic passengers []

Pirate presentation and water walk

Johnny Depp lookalike at the airport

Pirates of the Caribbean, Johnny Depp lookalike joined Exeter Airport’s World Duty Free (WDF) shop members of staff who had been supporting a campaign to raise awareness of the fact that millions of people in the developing world have to walk for miles to collect water every day. The swashbuckling captain welcomed back the pirate []

Launch for Turkish Language Course

University of Exeter‰'s Foreign Language Centre ‰Holiday Turkish course

Exeter Airport was the venue for the launch of the University of Exeter’s Foreign Language Centre ‘Holiday Turkish’ course. Passengers at the airport were given a free taster of key expressions and phrases to help prepare them for their holiday. Turkish tutor Anil Lee, who originally hails from Istanbul and has been resident in Exeter []