Flybe has announced it is to add another daily flight between Newcastle airport and London Gatwick.

The extra service will commence on 26 October – the start of Flybe’s winter schedule – and bring the number of weekday flights to four per day, Mondays-Fridays with three per day at weekends.

The new flights will leave Newcastle at 0710 each day, arriving Gatwick airport at 0840, with the return flight departing London Gatwick at 0940 to arriving Newcastle at 1105.