Airline Suspending Operations: Air Southwest passes into history

The Plymouth based low cost carrier, which had launched services by taking over the former British Airways routes from Plymouth and Newquay to London Gatwick in October 2003, compeleted its planned closedown on 30 September 2011. The carrier's last three Bombardier DHC-8-300 turboprops were transferred to new owner, Humberside based Eastern Airways, which had acquired the airline on 1 December 2010.

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