{"id":6282,"date":"2025-12-23T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6282"},"modified":"2025-12-23T17:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T17:07:46","slug":"air-charter-scotland-to-fill-wick-aberdeen-void-daily-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=6282","title":{"rendered":"Air Charter Scotland to fill Wick-Aberdeen void \u2013 Daily Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Air-Charter-Scotland-will-operate-a-BAe-Jetstream-aircraft.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187825 lazyload\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"794\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Air-Charter-Scotland-will-operate-a-BAe-Jetstream-aircraft.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-187825 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Air-Charter-Scotland-will-operate-a-BAe-Jetstream-aircraft.png 794w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Air-Charter-Scotland-will-operate-a-BAe-Jetstream-aircraft-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Air-Charter-Scotland-will-operate-a-BAe-Jetstream-aircraft-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/dailybusinessgroup.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Air-Charter-Scotland-will-operate-a-BAe-Jetstream-aircraft-600x332.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 794px) 100vw, 794px\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Air Charter Scotland will use a Jetstream aircraft<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Air Charter Scotland will take on the suspended Wick-Aberdeen route as part of an expansion into scheduled air service operations in the new year. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Glasgow headquartered company has\u00a0signed a contract with Highland Council to operate the Public Service Obligation (PSO) route from 12 January.\u00a0 It has not been operating since the collapse of Eastern Airways in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Air Charter Scotland will lease a BAe Jetstream 32 from \u2013 and operated by \u2013 Netherlands airline AIS Airlines before adding the type to its own fleet in the next few months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Bookings go live from 6 January and flights will operate six days a week excluding Saturday from Wick, where the aircraft will be based, and from Aberdeen.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Chief operating officer Derek Thomson said: \u201cWe are proud to support the Caithness community by keeping this vital air link flying, providing a critical lifeline air service the region can be truly proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Headquartered in Glasgow, with operational bases in London and Malta, Air Charter Scotland is Scotland\u2019s second oldest airline operator. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Air Charter Scotland is an aircraft asset management company. The fleet is offered for third party charter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It began operations with Cessna 310 and Beech King Air 200 aircraft before expanding into executive jet operations back in 2006.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Simple Share Buttons Adder (8.5.3) simplesharebuttons.com -->           \t            <\/div>\n<p><script>\n!function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s)\n{if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\nn.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};\nif(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';\nn.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.async=!0;\nt.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,document,'script',\n'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n fbq('init', '1192059580980274'); \nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script>#Air #Charter #Scotland #fill #WickAberdeen #void #Daily #Business<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air Charter Scotland will use &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[5548,1417,5549,266,3576,265,5550,872,1642,5552,5551],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}