Isles of Scilly Route
Many residents and visitors greatly miss the S-61 service which operated on the Penzance to Scillies route for decades. The fixedwing Skybus service from Lands End using Islanders and Twin Otters costs around £160 return for the twenty eight mile crossing to the islands. Much talk continues with suggestions on the feasibility of reinstating a helicopter service and perhaps predictably in election year, local political figures loom large in such chatter. There are suggestions the AW189 might be used.
As someone with more than a passing interest in the islands, I wonder if those of you on this forum might care to comment on the feasibility of such a move, how many will it carry including luggage, wuold it be a commercially viable option? The former operating base at Penzance is now a newly opened supermarket and Skybus who own Lands End airport would not be amenable to share heir facility with competition of this kind.
Indicative of the chatter on the islands on the subject, someone has recently suggested introducing a seventy five seater Dornier on the route in to St. Mary's Airport, runway if memory serves me correctly being just 15/1600 ft. !