The brand-new route will connect passengers from a remote tip of the UK to just outside its capital. The flights, operated by Eastern Airways, will take off from Newquay Airport in north Cornwall ...

Eastern Airways joins easyJet at London Southend, where passengers can routinely get from the plane to the train or car park in less than 15 minutes.

Alongside Eastern Airways' daily flights to the "surf capital" of the UK, operators Balkan Holidays and Santa's Lapland will be taking passengers to Bulgaria and Finland respectively this year.

Topping our list of British Airways longest routes is from London Heathrow to Santiago in Chile, with a distance of 7,227 ...