Channel-Islands regional carrier Blue Islands has restarted services from Manchester to Exeter. The key regional service previously attracted thousands of regular passengers travelling for both business and leisure.

Exeter has also seen the return of flights to and from Jersey thanks to Blue Islands. Rob Veron, Blue Islands CEO said, “we are very pleased to reinstate two very popular routes from Exeter. The flights will initially operate three days a week, and for next summer we will increase frequencies with Manchester served three times a day and Jersey once a day.”

While the plan initially is to use aircraft based in the Channel Islands to serve these routes, from the end of October the airline plans to base an aircraft in Exeter. This will result in around 20 pilots, cabin crew and engineers also being employed at the airport.

The routes from Exeter follow the reintroduction of Channel Islands’ flights from Birmingham to Jersey at the end of August. These flights are initially operating four days a week and from next summer will increase to a daily service to Jersey with convenient onward connections to Guernsey.

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