Originally Posted by
kcockayne
Yes, but it is a huge ask. I don't think that you can seriously operate an airline with only one route carrying what , 25 pax per day (considerably less in winter)? The Alderney people are peed off with AUR, but they are not going to get anything better, or cheaper. Certainly not with Air Alderney. To make the thing even remotely viable, they need more routes, better a/c, & a monopoly.
Yes , of course you are right. Daily pax in summer on the SOU/ACI route must be some 100/140 pax sectors a day (3 or 4 flights each way each with 18/19 seats), ACI/GCI similar. In winter far less, averaging 2 flights a day on each route?
The challenges of these routes must not be understated. On 26 Nov I was flying to SOU and over limit crosswinds delayed the inbound aircraft on the morning flight back to ACI from GCI; most pax were coming over to work on Alderney for the day (e.g. a health visitor); by the time the winds had abated, people had abandoned their trips and the booked load of 12 was down to just 2. As you say, it is a huge ask for whoever is operating ACI routes - and ACI and GCI have far more of a nexus than ACI/JER.