Air Southwest has just celebrated its fifth birthday by naming two of its aircraft after its regional bases – ‘City of Plymouth’ and ‘County of Cornwall’.

The airline’s first flight was to Gatwick in 2003 and since then it has carried more than 1.3 million passengers across its network.

Air Southwest offers more than 1,200 flights per month to and from Plymouth, Newquay, Bristol airport, London Gatwick, Manchester airport, Leeds Bradford airport, Glasgow airport, Newcastle airport, Cork, Dublin and Jersey.