Dundee’s troubled airport has been plunged into crisis with the imminent announcement that its only scheduled service is to be axed.
Airline CityJet’s daily flights to London will be grounded at the end of March because of low passenger numbers and little prospect of an improvement in the foreseeable future.
Efforts are being made to find a new airline to take over the route, but the low level of customer support for the existing service may not make that task easy.
With the Government announcing earlier this month that maintaining the London link was vital to the airport’s future, the ending of the service places a big question mark over the Riverside site.
Closure would be a severe blow to Dundee’s economic regeneration and a major setback to projects like the £1 billion waterfront redevelopment that need good transport connections with bigger cities.
CityJet have said they were not commenting “at this time” that the Dundee-London route is to be grounded after March 29 2014, but operators Highland and Islands Airports had heard the grim news.
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