Riverboat
The Guernsey States going forward with routes are routes that have never been there in the first place.
With Jersey is a differant story when you look back into the past
You quoted Heathrow
Luton
Coventry
Stansted
Cardiff
All these routes are ones that stopped for a number of reasons the only new route is the Doncaster.
A new route means never tried before but the States don,t get the picture.
The Heathrow and the Paris that Flybe wanted to start again are routes that were dropped.
In the past Flybe was the last operator on the Luton with one a day in the summer with a BAE146 300 which equaled 110 seats each way Thomson will be 20 or 30 seats more but will the route work?
It didn,t work for Flybe due to a number of reason so why should it work for Thomson?.
The Stansted route was better suited for connecting flights that have built up over the years, if the timeings are good it can work, the only reason AEX stopped was due to company restructing with the sale, from what I can make out has not happened.
The whole culture has changed for flights to the Islands and you can,t turn the clock back the only way new routes or trying to restart old one are with small aircraft like ATR and Dash 300 aircraft but they only have a certain catchment area>