Loganair: The airline that survived 60 years of turbulence

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Scottish airline Loganair has had highs and lows since starting as a one-plane operation in 1962.

, stating that its decision had followed "a failure to agree future operational standards and commercial arrangements".But Loganair was to outlive Flybe, which collapsed in March 2020.The airline lays claim to being the world's only scheduled air service which lands on a beach

Loganair operates the world's shortest scheduled passenger flight - a two-minute hop between the Orkney islands of Westray and Papa Westray, allowing it to expand its route network to new airports such as Newquay, Southampton, Birmingham and Exeter. While most airlines were grounded as the pandemic ran its course, Loganair continued to transport patients, tests and equipment across Scotland and beyond.In 2017, Loganair flew once again under its own name for the first time in nearly 25 years

"At the beginning of the pandemic, I said to our team that I didn't know whether we had a river or an ocean ahead of us to cross, but that we just had to keep swimming until we reached the other side.

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