Shetland to London Non Stop from Today

Friday 23 June 2006

Today’s hidden europe e-news reports: ‘When Atlantic Airways flight RC362 touches down in the Shetland Isles’ Sumburgh airport this morning, en route from Vagar airport in the Faroe Islands to London Stansted, it will mark a little moment of aviation history. Not for many years has there been a direct air service linking the Faroes and the Shetlands, and never, in the whole history of airline schedules, has there been a non-stop service between the Shetlands and London. The new Atlantic Airways service stops four times weekly at Sumburgh airport in Shetland, twice northbound and twice southbound. The sector between London and Shetland takes 100 minutes, halving the existing fastest flight time between London and one of the UK’s northernmost island outposts.’
From hidden europe magazine