Norwich Airport bosses eye Spain routes

Norwich Airport authorities are holding talks with a range of airlines to discuss restoring routes cut by Flybe earlier this summer, local press have reported.

According to the Norwich Evening News, popular outcry has stimulated airport bosses into talking with alternative providers after Flybe announced that routes to Alicante and Malaga would no longer operate during the winter.

"We are looking at every possibility because we know people want the product back at Norwich," Louise Wilkinson, airport spokeswoman, told the paper.


"The flights to Alicante and Malaga are a priority because people are asking for them back and we want to give our passengers choice," she added, alluding to the petition signed by Norwich residents to have the routes restored.

But finding an airline with spare aircraft available to fly the routes over the winter could be a challenge, she warned, given that airline operators "are normally committed to a route and a timetable for at least a year".

Norwich passengers could expect to wait for up to a year for the routes to be reinstated, she concluded.

Meanwhile, the airport continues to service routes to European destinations such as Corfu, Majorca and Sicily.