Owners' wife? etc etc. Not so. The closest Aurigny came to having a human owner was Sir Derek Bailey and he bowed out many years before that. Maurice Wyatt 'ran' Aurigny Southampton for much of the 20th century, and before that it was a guy whose name I forget (Mac something) for the moment, but he moved to Alderney and became commercial director - the same time that John Cadoret was Ops Director. Now I could tell you a story like that about another Islander operator called something like North East Airlines that flew from Westerley, Connecticut to Block Island. A real seat of the pants operation. We asked the pilot cum clerk cum owner about a sub load trip. 'Sub Load? he said. 'Never heard of it. But if you want to come for the ride - no problem'.