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Connecting Inverness to the World. Lynda Johnston Head of Business Development Highlands & Islands Airports ljohnston@hial.co.uk. Highlands and Islands airports. How important is air connectivity?. Winter Sports. Inverness airport routes. 3 ways to connect from/to Inverness.
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Connecting Inverness to the World Lynda Johnston Head of Business Development Highlands & Islands Airports ljohnston@hial.co.uk
How important is air connectivity? Winter Sports
3 ways to connect from/to Inverness • Individual Journey Tickets (multiple tickets) • Inverness Luton Malaga • Booked on the internet • Interline Journey Tickets (through tickets) • Inverness London Gatwick/Manchester Orlando • Booked via travel agents only • Code Share Journey Tickets (one ticket) • New York Amsterdam Inverness • Booked via long haul carrier website
What is a hub airport? • An airport designed to attract incoming passengers who need to transfer to another flight to get to a destination not served by their own local airport
Benefits of KLM/Air France code share • Seamless connections via Schipol • China • Africa • Latin America • America • Top 10 route users
Benefits to you...... • More convenient travel for your visitors • 50:50 inbound: outbound in first year • 13% of first year traffic connecting from Paris, Oslo, Atlanta, Hamburg, Munich • 25% of inbound code share passengers are from the United States (less than 2 hour connection times for JFK, Atlanta and Boston) • VisitScotland are promoting the route to agents and on leisure websites • More connections to the world.....