December 15th - New Route From Newquay To Gatwick, But Should We Be Flying?
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2021
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:47.8 | Hello, I'm Simon Corder, welcoming you to my independent travel podcast, bringing you the latest news on travelling, whether you're just dreaming of a great escape, looking forward to one or actually away, and I hope having the time of your life. |
| 0:56.8 | I'm at Gatwick Airport, which as you can hear, is really quite lively, lots of excited chatter chatter and that's because we've got a new route launch and these events are always full of fun. You get the spokespeople from the airlines, |
| 1:03.4 | the bosses of the airport and a lot of local dignitaries from Chambers of Commerce. |
| 1:11.6 | You furthermore also get some Prosecco, but I promise I haven't touched a drop. |
| 1:16.6 | So what are they celebrating? |
| 1:18.6 | Well, the restoration of the very long standing link from Gatwick Airport to Newkey in Cornwall. A flight of just over one hour, whether you're on the fast jets that Flyby used to use |
| 1:33.3 | or on the ATR 72 propeller plane that Eastern Airways the new airline on the route is using. |
| 1:42.3 | And it's an interesting development, partly because it's something new, partly because it is |
| 1:51.0 | reconnecting a part of the country which says they have very poor links with London, five |
| 1:56.8 | hours by rail, often more than that, by road, and partly because it's not going to Heathrow. |
| 2:04.8 | You might recall that Flybee before they very sadly went bust in early March 2020, just ahead of the |
| 2:15.3 | COVID crisis really shutting down everything. |
| 2:18.3 | They were doing four flights a day in and out of Heathrow. |
| 2:22.3 | But instead, Newkey and Eastern Airways have decided to go into Gatwick. |
| 2:27.3 | It's also a PSO public service obligation route. |
| 2:31.3 | That means that it's effectively subsidised and furthermore |
| 2:35.0 | there's no air passenger duty so that saves a lot of cost. Fares pretty competitive |
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