Based on the story on Channel TV us who live on Guernsey will be without a jet service to Gatwick come the end of March!
http://www5.channelonline.tv/news/te...12742&zoneid=1
Guernsey's runway no longer up to the job
There's pressure on Guernsey States to get the Island's runway back in its full operational condition.
Flybe want to introduce new aircraft on its Guernsey routes. But the airline says the airport isn't up to the job because the runway can't take the weight - and it'll be more than a year until it can.
The problem is Flybe want to introduce their new Embraer jets... In theory they should be able to use the runway without any problem at all. But the problem is, they can't.
Like any public road, Guernsey airport runway needs maintenance to ensure it can carry the weight it was designed for. Though it's perfectly fine for the aircraft presently using it, it has deteriorated over the years and it could be some time before it can take anything heavier. Flybe want to introduce their Embraer 195 jet aircraft, capable of carrying 118 passengers.
Both the airport Director and the Minister for Public Services were unavailable to comment today but have promised a response for tomorrow. One thing they have reassured though is the airport at the moment, with the scheduled aircraft is perfectly safe and indeed they say the Embraer Jet could land here it's just it couldn't land at full capacity.
Flybe's Ian Taylor said: "Immediately we are calling for an urgent meeting with Commerce and Employment in Guernsey, Public Services and the airport to see if further studies can be done. To see if this is a finite weight limit. Our winter schedule comes to and end in March, the 146 is leaving our fleet at the end of March. So therefore there will be a strong possibility, unless some remedy can be sort immediately, that Guernsey will be without a jet service in and out of the island."
Airport officials say it will be at least a year until the runway is ready to take the sort of weights it was designed for.