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Old 24th Jul 2018, 09:18
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So what exactly is Blue Islands up to? Reading between the lines, it sounds like cutting mid-day departures to JER and SOU during the winter and - depending on competition on those routes showing up - also during the summer. As the only airlines that sould realistically operate GCI-SOU seasonally are Flybe and Aurigny which is not a very likely scenario, we are looking at winter season cut-backs. If there is no demand for mid-day flights to SOU and JER in the winter, there will probably be not more demand for flights to any other destination anyway. The only remotely possible option could be a "fare-cracker" of IOM-fame style flight to a London airport - but with LGW still subject to licencing, no slots at LHR, no suitable aircraft for LCY (too expensive anyway) and Aurigny already on STN, LTN would be the only logical gateway for such an endeavour. So in the end, the aircraft will just sit idle on the ground at GCI unless they would do two morning flights to SOU and find woork for the aircraft from there (in conjunction with Flybe) before it returns to GCI in the evening.
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