UK regional airline, Eastern Airways, will enter into a codeshare partnership with Channel Islands specialist airline Aurigny – Guernsey’s airline to help both regional airlines offer comprehensive connectivity benefits across each-others expanding networks.
This first of a number of codeshare and interline agreements, the initial focus is on the two airlines major Southampton connections, where Eastern Airways operates services to Belfast City, Manchester, Leeds-Bradford, Teesside, Aberdeen and in the new year Newcastle and Dublin among other new services planned for Spring 2021.
Both operators are aligning their booking system by working with the developers of Worldwide by easyJet, to allow a single point of booking for each other’s services to or from Guernsey and the expansive Southampton network offered on Eastern Airways.
Tony Burgess, Managing Director, Eastern Airways added: “By forging this partnership and joining our networks, we will now look forward to welcoming many more customers on board and providing them with an extended choice of simplified route options and seamless connectivity whether they be travelling for business or pleasure.”
Commercial Director at Aurigny, Malcolm Coupar, said: “As we come out of this pandemic, I expect we will see more airlines concentrate their operations out of certain hubs and that agreements between airlines will be more commonplace for the benefit of the customer.”