{"id":695851,"date":"2026-07-17T01:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695851\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T01:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T01:40:10","slug":"skybus-suspends-newquay-flights-to-isles-of-scilly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695851\/","title":{"rendered":"Skybus suspends Newquay flights to Isles of Scilly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">An airline has stopped flights between two airports during the summer due to a shortage of aircraft and qualified pilots to run the service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Skybus said its route between Cornwall Airport Newquay and St Mary&#8217;s on the Isles of Scilly had been suspended until 31 August, with passengers on existing bookings transferred onto flights from Land&#8217;s End.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The move follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5yez15gpgzo\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">series of operational difficulties affecting services to the Isles of Scilly<\/a> during one of the busiest periods of the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The company has apologised, saying it had explored &#8220;every available option&#8221; to keep the route running, but concluded it would be unable to operate the service reliably for the remainder of the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Explaining the decision, Skybus said it had faced &#8220;a combination of a shortage of both aircraft and qualified pilots which has significantly reduced our operational resilience&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The airline, which is part of the Isles of Scilly Steamship Group, said customers did not need to take any action immediately and would be contacted in date order with alternative flight time options.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Skybus said affected passengers would also be offered free parking at Land&#8217;s End Airport, a refund of any fare difference between their original and revised flights, and a voucher to spend at the airport caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An airline has stopped flights between two airports during the summer due to a shortage of aircraft and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-695851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}