Channel Islands airline Blue Islands is to restart flights to Bristol with safety measures in place including compulsory face coverings for passengers.
The company, which introduced a new brand identity and livery in early July, will start flying into and out of Bristol from August 3. The service will operate four times a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays during August, becoming daily from September.
Blue Islands is the latest airline to recommence operations at Bristol Airport following the easing of lockdown restrictions in the 海角视频.
In July Dutch airline KLM restarted daily flights to Amsterdam鈥檚 Schipol Airport and easyJet relaunched flights to 22 airports across Europe for the first time since operations ceased at the end of March.
Ryanair also said it would be jetting to 30 routes to and from Bristol, starting with Malaga, in Spain, rapidly followed by TUI 海角视频 revealing its summer 2020 holiday programme from Bristol Airport, with flights to Greece and Spain, although it has now cancelled all 海角视频 holidays to the Canary and Balearic islands until August 10 as the 海角视频 tightens travel restrictions with Spain following a surge in coronavirus cases.
However, Blue Islands is ready to take to he skies again and chief executive Rob Veron said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e really pleased to be re-starting our Bristol operations. During lockdown we鈥檝e been redeveloping our website, brand, systems and most importantly our product offering; for example, both hold and cabin baggage are included with every ticket.
鈥淲e also understand that feeling safe and secure all the way through the travel experience is of paramount importance, which is why we have introduced a number of enhanced wellbeing measures, including, use of masks, enhanced deep cleaning onboard, use of sanitisers and a microbe shield protective mist in the cabin.
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Bristol Airport chief executive Dave Lees said: 鈥淲e are delighted to welcome the return of Blue Islands resuming the service between Jersey and Bristol on August 3.
鈥淭he route will further extend the choice for customers wishing to visit family or friends or enjoy a staycation holiday.
鈥淲e will continue to work in collaboration looking at future route opportunities and strengthening the services between the mainland and the Channel Islands.
鈥淚t鈥檚 important to ensure our customers feel safe when travelling. We have the measures in place at the Airport with Safe journeys start here, our three step plan, Get ready; Stay safe; Let鈥檚 travel providing the extra Covid reassurance to customers to facilitate safe travel and allow customers to fly with confidence.鈥
