Word on the ground is that Aurigny want to axe the Alderney-Southampton route and move all passengers through Guernsey. This will make it near impossible for business types to visit London for example and back on the same day.
beaufort1 you're local and should know that the Alderney rumour mill often spins in interesting directions. On this occasion it is peddling utter bilge. There is absolutely no truth in that rumour, and Aurigny's actions point to it. Why would they both investing in Dorniers (which improve the economics of the SOU by substantially more than the GCI) if they were going to chop it? You know as well as I that Aurigny's political masters would never allow it anyway. It would ruin the island, unless there were probably at least 12x daily GCI services - which would only somewhat mitigate the impact of the loss.
fudpucker is bang on the money - we no longer live in 1968 and it's important that we work with Aurigny, rather than against it. Senior figures in Aurigny are deeply irritated about how ungrateful some in Alderney seem about their attempts to maintain the level of service on both GCI and SOU. The campaign is in fact very dangerous when you consider that this plays very well in Guernsey - the politicians there ideally don't want to spend up to £18m on new aircraft, but they've voted to do so. Here lies the opportunity not to... if they hand over the keys, take Dickin Drew's £200,000pa profit figure at face value and thus provide no subsidy, this whole thing will stop being such a game and escalate very quickly.