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Old 3rd Apr 2015, 10:42
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Aero Mad
 
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Here's the link.

Alderney-based airline won't compete with Aurigny | Channel - ITV News

Citywing want sole operator rights to operate a subsidised service out of Alderney. Cynics would say that is exactly the position Aurigny finds itself in at the moment, but a de facto subsidy for the latter is to a States-owned company - not to a private entity based in another jurisdiction. The fact remains that subsidising both would be an egregious waste of taxpayers' money given the size of the market.

Aside from its flaws which I did to death in an earlier post on the previous page, if this plan did come to fruition it would be on the basis that Aurigny phased out its Trislander fleet, saved considerable cost to its bottom line by not having to consider their replacements and the States of Alderney (we assume) funded one subsidised operator of air services to its own island. One might speculate that there are some in Guernsey's Treasury and at Aurigny who would be greatful for the opportunity to hang up what they might see as their moaning millstone. Mark Darby's letter to the so-called 'Alderney Pressure Group' last year, published on this forum, displayed more than a little of this temperament, with the differerence that the CAA would never have given its assent to their plans, whereas Citywing's are at least not illegal.
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