Eastern Airways’ flights to and from the Isle of Man will be available to book on Flybe’s website from next month.

The company provides daily weekday flights from the Isle of Man to Belfast City, Glasgow and Newcastle, connecting with services to destinations including Cardiff, East Midlands, Edinburgh, Leeds Bradford, Southampton.

A new five-year franchise agreement with Flybe starts on October 29 when all of Eastern’s services will carry BE flight codes.

Passengers making bookings for travel on or after October 29 can now book directly via Flybe.com.

Those booking for travel on October 28 or before will continue to book at EasternAirways.com

Eastern Airways’ alliance with Flybe began on September 1. The airline provided four aircraft to operate on six of Flybe’s existing branded routes in Scotland, from Sumburgh (Shetland Isles), Kirkwall (Orkney Isles), Stornoway (Western Isles), Aberdeen, Glasgow and Edinburgh.

Mathew Herzberg, Eastern Airways’ head of commercial, said: ’The franchise partnership will help to broaden the sales distribution of our route network through the Flybe brand and reach a wider audience of customers who are new to the Eastern Airways operated services.

’The BE flight code gives our customers greater connectivity to Flybe’s routes and global airline associated network with one single, seamless booking, along with online check-in.’

Flybe franchise flights operated by Eastern Airways will leave from Aberdeen, Wick John O’Groats, Stornoway, Glasgow, Newcastle, Durham Tees Valley, Leeds Bradford, Humberside, Belfast City, Anglesey, Cardiff, Norwich, Southampton, Paris Orly and Rodez as well as the Isle of Man.

Eastern Airways celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, and reintroduced Isle of Man services in March 2017.

It has two Embraer 170 and three Embraer 145 jets in its fleet, as well as nine Saab 2000s and is the largest operator in the world of Jetstream 41 aircraft, with 17.