No Emb for the Channel Islands
Interesting Chesty Morgan
If your information is correct it would mean Souhampton would not be getting any as well.
Look at the runway figures Jersey and Southampton are similar with some exceptions like OCLs.
The figures are as follows
Southampton TORA Rwy 02 5653 feet Rwy 20 5413 feet
TODA Rwy 02 6007 feet Rwy 20 5922 feet
LDA Rwy 02 5415 feet Rwy 20 5266 feet
Jersey TORA Rwy 09 5597 feet Rwy 27 5400 feet
TODA Rwy 09 6198 Feet Rwy 27 8100 feet
LDA Rwy 09 6198 feet Rwy 27 5098 feet
You can see a lot of the figures as close to each other with the Jersey operation the sector lengths are a lot shorter than the Southhampton jet operations so if Jersey can,t take the EMB Sou can,t unless someone has not done enought research there could be a major problem when the BAE146 fleet does not exist.
Could some of the bases end up with an all Dash fleet and not a mix of EMB and Dash.
I can understand the aircraft may not be able to operate out of Guernsey as there Runways figures are less than Jersey and Southampton.
As the saying goes two Dash,s would be better than no Dash,s at all.
Southampton does need a Jet or two based on the sector lengths they operate with the height restriction on the Dash Fleet due operational reasons the fuel burn would be higher on the very long sectors to southern Portugal and Spain and other places of this distance.