Spare ATR
tyfilu
You stated they need a spare aircraft as one comes out the hangar another goes in.
Maybe you have not got the full picture so lets show you a bit more of it.
One ATR72 does the Jersey-Bournemouth-Jersey mail at least five nights a week.
The aircraft departs Jersey approx 1940 and returns 0530 the following mirning a normally sits on the ground all day for fourteen hours unless it needs to position to Guernsey to pick up another ATR schedules due unserviabilty.
Is this a good commercial operation having an aircraft on the ground for so long or is it another one of M.H. mail contracts that we must not use the aircraft, does the S of G know what is happening with there airline, do they get the full picture.
I am not an accountant but an aircraft like that I would think should be doing day flying with four to six sectors at least.
Once the Shorts 360 goes at the end of this year things might change and they may use the mail ATR to do a morning Jersey to Guernsey sector and Guernsey-Jersey late afternoon so would do some sectors out of Guernsey during the day good commercial idea??