Loganair was named a Finalist in the Best Short Haul Airline of the Year category at the 2025 Travelling for Business Awards, recognition for the airline that keeps the United Kingdom's regions genuinely connected.
The UK's largest regional carrier flies where others will not: the Highlands and Islands, the Northern Isles, and a web of routes linking Scotland, the North of England, Northern Ireland and beyond. For the businesses of Aberdeen, Orkney, Shetland and dozens of communities in between, Loganair is not a travel option but essential infrastructure - the difference between a same-day meeting and an overnight odyssey. Its crews land in crosswinds that ground lesser operations, on runways that include the
famous beach at Barra, with a matter-of-fact professionalism that regular passengers come to treasure.
The airline's expansion tells a confident story. Loganair has opened a
new base at Southampton with a clutch of fresh routes,
strengthened Jersey's connectivity with four new direct services including Paris, and continued building its network from Newcastle - growth that extends its regional mission across the whole country, not merely its Scottish heartland. Fares include checked baggage and sensible flexibility, small courtesies that business travellers notice on every trip.
Voters also credited Loganair's eye on the future. Its exclusive
partnership with Heart Aerospace to advance hybrid-electric aviation in the UK positions the regional specialist at the front of the technology most likely to transform short-haul flying - fitting, since Loganair's short island hops are precisely the routes electric aircraft will serve first.
The 2025 title went to Jet2, with Loganair shortlisted alongside SAS - a Finalist field proving that excellence in short haul comes in every size, from national leisure giant to island lifeline.
The fleet tells the same story of fitness for purpose: robust regional aircraft sized for short runways and island weather, flown by crews who know every quirk of their routes. Interline and codeshare links feed passengers smoothly onwards through the UK's major hubs, so a journey that begins on a Hebridean airstrip can end anywhere in the world - with Loganair handling the trickiest leg flawlessly.
As the Travelling for Business Awards look towards 2026, Loganair remains the quiet hero of British aviation: the airline that measures success not in market share but in communities kept within reach - and, increasingly, in showing the whole industry what regional flying's cleaner future looks like.
