Is the GCI-LHR route getting a subsidy from the States (despite Aurigny ownership)? If not, I find it difficult to understand why an airline would start GCI-LHR before JER-LHR. As some will remember, the LHR route has been an issue for Guernsey for decades. The now famous litigation concerning the lawfulness of slot trading had its starting point with Air UK axing the LHR-GCI and selling the slots, leading to demands that slots should also be owned by an airport or state authority and not only an airline in order to be able to protect vital air services.