Minoan Air (Irakleion) has announced a major change to its strategy and will give up its domestic flights in Greece from January 21 where it currently operates from its main base at Heraklion to Kos Hippocrates, Mytilene, Rhodes International and Thira Santorini. It will instead base one of its Fokker 50s at Oxford Kidlington from March 4 with a second Fokker 50 to follow from May 10. It plans to offer up to twice daily services from Oxford to both Dublin International and Edinburgh. In other news, Minoan has also announced plans to base a Fokker 50 at Lugano from March 28 to launch daily flights to Rome Fiumicino (replacing Darwin Airline (Lugano) on the route which has recently stopped its services) and a three times weekly service to Vienna. The Greek regional carrier's fourth Fokker 50 SX-BRM (c/n 20207) is currently operating on behalf of Flyglinjen (Stockholm Arlanda) between Stockholm Arlanda and Kristianstad.