When Bymon had the NQY-LHR route twice daily route (early morning and an evening ) with the 50 seat Herald (taken over from BMA in 1977 who had used a 73 seat VC8) we at BMA LHR handled BC and both their evening and the morning NQY flights were always very busy with both interliners and businessmen -- plus plenty of connecting pax to the Isles of Scilly on the morning departure out of LHR
Seem to recall at weekends it was a more limited service as the Herald did JER charters iirc from MAN and SEN.

When BC got the new Dash 7 a lunchtime service from LHR was added that flew via EXT

A new LHR-NQY service I reckon will be very successful for whoever operates it - Amazing what comes around again!

Too bad with all this Brexit stuff as I think that a KLM AMS to Newquay service would be great....

It's not Brexit that will be stopping that but paucity of slots at AMS and whether they could get sufficient onwards connecting passengers.

No chance of sufficient passengers for multiple daily rotations, and a single daily rotation won't help passengers faced with a connecting time of many hours. Nice thought but the population of the catchment area doesn't justify it.

Sure is to reduce HOTAC and positioning costs. There have been multiple MAN crews over nighting in NQY along with occasional EXT and BHX based crew to cover the operation. Makes sense to have some crew locally based. Transfers have also been offered internally to go to this new base.

The other factor is that pilot resignations in the regional bases have apparently been a lot lower than at points such as MAN, BHX, SOU where there are lots of other jobs on offer or jobs on offer nearby (LHR in the case of SOU). I would think a crew base at NQY will be quite attractive and will help them retain pilots for longer, given the significant numbers apparently leaving from other bases, mostly to go to BA, TUI and Jet2.

I am up for using that one, ideal for a quick break in the Channel Islands, will book as soon as the route is up and running.
Am I right in thinking Blue Islands is a franchise partner of Flybe, guess that will not change after the takeover, can you book Blue Islands through Flybe?. I currently have an expiring credit with Flybe and it would be handy to use it for that flight..

all bookings through Flybe.com

Excellent thanks!

Problems with separate tickets is that you cannot through checked-in baggage onto BA flights at LHR, and if your inbound flight into LHR (in either direction) is delayed and fails to connect, you are on your own to re-organise your travel. For example, if your flight from NQY is delayed and you miss your connection at LHR, you could be obliged to buy a new ticket! You also have to bear in mind connection time between terminals at LHR is generally around 30 minutes.