{"id":26940,"date":"2018-11-23T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevoiceoflondon.co.uk\/?p=26940"},"modified":"2018-11-23T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:06:00","slug":"flybe-plans-direct-flights-from-heathrow-to-newquay-in-an-attempt-to-boost-international-tourism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/flybe-plans-direct-flights-from-heathrow-to-newquay-in-an-attempt-to-boost-international-tourism\/","title":{"rendered":"Flybe plans direct flights from Heathrow to Newquay in an attempt to boost international tourism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Cornwall Council\u2019s leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cornwall.gov.uk\/council-and-democracy\/council-news-room\/media-releases\/news-from-2018\/news-from-november-2018\/cornwall-will-welcome-new-direct-flights-to-heathrow-from-april-2019\/\">Adam Paytner said<\/a>: \u201cThis sends a strong message that Cornwall is open for business. \u00a0It will allow people to connect from the region to the world\u2019s most economically important cities, unlocking opportunities for tourism and trade\u201d.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Flybe, the Exeter-based airline has been affected by falling customer demand. But has tweeted that this route \u201cplays a vital role in the UK\u2019s transport infrastructure to connect regional communities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Voice of London looked at the transport methods used to get to Newquay, Cornwall from London to find out which was the best.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26941\" style=\"width: 651px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26941\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26941\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/11\/Travel-Costs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"453\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26941\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graph: Mohammed Hamid<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This graph shows how expensive air travel can be when compared to the price of travelling with coach.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26951\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26951\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26951\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/64\/2018\/11\/Travel-Duration.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26951\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graph: Mohammed Hamid<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Although coach is the cheapest, it&#8217;s by far the most time-consuming taking six times longer than it would by aeroplane.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A Flybe spokesperson told the <em>Voice of London<\/em>: \u201cUnder the new four-year Public Service Obligation (PSO) agreement, Flybe will continue to operate flights from London Gatwick to Newquay until 30<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">th<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> March 2019. With effect from 31<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">st<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> March 2019, flights will operate to and from Heathrow.\u201d Currently, Flybe flies three times daily between the two destinations but this will be upped to four once the new route is inaugurated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b> Words: Mohammed Hamid | Subbing: Laureta Doci<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cornwall Council\u2019s leader Adam Paytner said: \u201cThis sends a strong message that Cornwall is open for business. \u00a0It will allow people to connect from the region to the world\u2019s most economically important cities, unlocking opportunities&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":476,"featured_media":26952,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,115,134],"tags":[2434,3205,5793],"class_list":["post-26940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investigations","category-specials","category-uknews","tag-flybe","tag-investigations","tag-specials"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/476"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/thevoiceoflondon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}