AOA Annual Awards Ceremony Winners included two partner companies
Exeter International Airport’s Managing Director Jamie Christon has attended the annual Airport Operators Association (AOA) conference at The Hilton Metropole in London this week. The conference which was attended by over 200 delegates attracted record numbers of Managing Directors and culminated in the AOA Annual Awards Ceremony, the centrepiece of the Conference Dinner. The winners, […]
Work starts on Flybe's £24-million Training Academy
Work officially started on a multi-million pound Training Academy at Exeter Airport when Aviation Minister Paul Clark ceremonially cut the first turf. The ceremony marked the commencement of the construction of the £24m Flybe building – described it as a major boost for the both the local and national economy. The Flybe Training Academy is […]
Flybe will be launching flights between Exeter and Hannover next spring
Flybe will be launching flights between Exeter and Hannover next spring. The route will operate via Newcastle and will begin on March 31. Commenting on the new route Exeter Airport’s managing director Jamie Christon said; “Links to Germany have been on our wish list for many years and this route to Hannover looks set to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
