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Sutton Harbour Holdings Plc
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Plymouth , England
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is an
Airline based at
Plymouth City Airport ,
Plymouth ,
England . It operates regional scheduled passenger services from the south-west of England.
Air Southwest was established in May
2003 to fill the void left by the withdrawal of
British Airways from the south west of England. Operations began on
26 October 2003 , the day after BA withdrew from the market, with the
Plymouth -
Newquay -
London route. This was soon followed by the introduction of the
Plymouth -
Bristol -
Manchester route which was later extended to
Jersey .
On
11 April 2005 the company further expanded its operations, establishing a new hub at
Newquay , with direct flights to
Dublin and flights to
Leeds-Bradford via
Bristol . At the same time, the airline added a crew base at
Newquay , basing five cabin crew, ten pilots, and one aircraft at Newquay.
On Saturdays during the summer, the airline operates a weekly charter flight between
Jersey and
Humberside . The airline also operates charter flights on behalf of
Plymouth Argyle F.C. , transporting players and supporters to away games.
The airline uses the popular low fares, web-based format for bookings with over 90% of all bookings being made online. In its first eighteen months of operations Air Southwest carried over 200,000 passengers, increasing the number of passengers flying between Plymouth and Newquay and London Gatwick Airport by 22%. By March 20th 2006, the airline announced that it has carried 500,000 passengers since its lauch.
In April 2006 Air Southwest announced new services from Cardiff to Newquay and Manchester, and from Bristol to Norwich, in addition to the creation of a new crew and aircraft base at
Bristol .
The airline is a wholly owned subsidiary of Plymouth-based regeneration and transport group Sutton Harbour Holdings Plc, which also owns and operates
Plymouth City Airport . The airline employs 72 people and is headed by
Malcolm Naylor (previously chief executive of Brymon Airways, a Plymouth-based carrier integrated into British Airways in the 1990s).
Air Southwest operates to the following destinations (at April 2006):
The Air Southwest fleet consists of the following aircraft (at March 2006):
