Scotland's Airline has a proud history of serving far-flung communities

LOGANAIR, Scotland’s Airline, first began operating in 1962 as an Edinburgh-based, one pilot, one aircraft air taxi business.

It quickly became clear that there was a demand for scheduled services so they began operating flights to remote islands and communities including the small islands of Orkney in 1967 and Shetland in 1970.

Today, the airline still operate the world’s shortest scheduled flight between two of Orkney’s islands.

Loganair’s Westray to Papa Westray flights are scheduled to last two minutes, although the real flying time is closer to one minute, with the record for the fastest flight being just 53 seconds – hardly time to fasten your seatbelt.

Loganair later joined forces with British Airways, then Flybe, expanding their network across Britain. Earlier this year, Loganair began to fly solo, under their own name, sporting a new tartan livery on the planes.

Today, the airline fly to more than 40 destinations connecting the Scottish Islands to the mainland and Europe.

Loganair are the longestestablished airline in the United Kingdom still flying under their original name.

The airline do the school runs on the Orkney Inter Isles Service and they do the newspaper run to Stornoway in the deeply religious Western Isles, where they hold back from 1pm on a Sunday – giving airline staff the chance to attend church before going to work.

With the aid of a Loganair Islander, Shetland ponies were re-introduced to Fair Isle in the 1970s after an absence of 80 years.