Loganair, the UK’s largest regional airline, has posted an additional yr of profitability with a £6.9M revenue for the monetary yr that commenced 1st April 2023 and ended March thirty first 2024. This outcome, while persevering with a constructive monetary pattern, demonstrates the challenges skilled by the airline in 2023, particularly in relation to operational efficiency, because it accomplished the fleet transition programme.
Using greater than 850 folks throughout its community, Loganair flies 36 plane throughout over 60 routes. Within the yr to March 2024 the airline carried over 1.5m scheduled passengers, in addition to working constitution companies for the Oil & Gasoline {industry}, and delivering on its multi-year contract with the Royal Mail.
Loganair continued to take a position considerably in the course of the monetary yr to March 2024 finishing a fleet transition to ATR and retiring its final Saab 340 in January 2024. The bigger ATR plane current a extra comfy expertise for purchasers together with a quieter cabin, extra spacious overhead lockers for baggage and elevated variety of seats permitting the airline to proceed to stimulate extra tourism into the islands and throughout Scotland.
Luke Farajallah, CEO, Loganair, mentioned: “Regardless of the headwinds brought on by supply-chain issues, operational disruption, and inflationary strain in 2023, Loganair generated a wholesome return within the monetary yr ending March 2024. This ensures we proceed to function sustainably, that we’ve got the means to proceed funding into our fleet and buyer expertise, and ship essential regional and lifeline connectivity to our clients.
“The monetary yr ending March 2024 was difficult and the outcomes replicate an atmosphere the place many, usually industry-wide obstacles needed to be overcome. Nonetheless, and recognising the necessity to construct on constructive historic monetary efficiency, and with the benefit of getting now accomplished our fleet renewal programme, our focus in 2024 has been to enhance operational efficiency, and scale back prices together with these related to flight disruption. I’m happy to report that the enterprise has responded very properly to the adjustments launched, and that we’ve got seen a dramatic discount in delays and cancellations and their related prices. Our focus has additionally been to enhance the shopper expertise, with upgrades to our plane cabins, enhancements to the web site, and Airport processes.
“Our intention going ahead is to construct on the constructive traits seen in 2024, and to set strong foundations for the following part of progress for the airline. I’m assured that future monetary efficiency will replicate the varied adjustments and interventions being made, and that our traders, staff and clients can sit up for a vivid future.”