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All direct flights from Newquay Airport
| Flights from | Airport code | Flag | Country | Airline Name | Book now | Route to | Route from | Tooltip |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edinburgh | EDI |  | United Kingdom | Flybe |  | Flights from Newquay to Edinburgh | flights to Edinburgh from Newquay | |
| Glasgow International | GLA | | United Kingdom | Flybe | | Flights from Newquay to Glasgow International | flights to Glasgow International from Newquay | |
| London Gatwick | LGW | | United Kingdom | Flybe | | Flights from Newquay to London Gatwick | Flights to London Gatwick from Newquay | |
| Manchester | MAN | | United Kingdom | Flybe | | Flights from Newquay to Manchester | Flights to Manchester from Newquay |
Flight Summary
Getting to this particular corner of England is very time consuming by car or rail, so Newquay Airport should be able to sustain at the very least a decent range of domestic flights across the UK. However, a mixture of bad luck – namely the demise of Air Southwest – and a major own goal – the introduction of a hugely unpopular £5 per passenger airport development fee – has stifled growth at Newquay.
Newquay Airport Destinations
Flights from Newquay to Dusseldorf
Flights from Newquay to Edinburgh
Flights from Newquay to East Midlands
Flights from Newquay to Gatwick
Destination Summary
Newquay is Britain's surfing capital and gateway to spectacular Cornwall.
Quick Facts
- Airport Code: NQY
- Alternative Name: St Mawgans
- Miles From London: 363
James Says
In 2006 Newquay Airport introduced their airport development fee. The fee is not included in the ticket price and has to be paid by all passengers over the age of 16 at the point of departure.
In my opinion there is absolutely no justification for such fees. Can you imagine if your local supermarket added a fiver to your bill so they could expand the store? If an airport cannot sustain its business from standard airline charges then it should not be operating.
Your Comments (4)
Brian West
Instead, the range of flights to Newquay is now absolutely dire. I don't mind the train journey once you get beyond Exeter - if you can get a seat that is - but at busy times getting a decently priced train ticket is night on impossible, and Flybe need some competition, they can never be trusted to operate routes on their own, as their management always put their snouts in the trough!
Steven Lucas
The problem is not so much the security charge, which is a small amount to pay, but the fact that people taking holiday flights to Newquay get clobbered with two sets of Air Passenger Duty, when if they take flights to Spain for example, usually about 4x the carbon elephant sized foot print, they only pay once!
Talk about UK government completely shooting its own tourism industry in the foot - where's the clapping emoticon for that?
jayne
James Avery
Airlines will only operate routes that turn them a profit, and this is very difficult to do when the development charge is also on top of APD and when this charge is added twice for a UK domestic flight. In this respect, I don't think Newquay is doing as badly as it could be, and I hope it will be around for a while yet, unlike Plymouth. Remember that Newquay airport really serves the whole of Cornwall, and Plymuouth had a much faster rail link to London, making it hard for the all-important flights to Gatwick to be sustainable. Running what should have been point-to-point routes through Newquay AND Plymouth also didn't help.
Where exactly in France are you based? It should still be possible to get between most places in France and Newquay well within a working day - or are you talking about the ferry, which I agree is slow, but that has always been part of the fun of going by sea!