Aurigny was founded by Sir Derek Bailey after yet another airline had failed in trying to provide services into the islands. It succeeded for close to 40 years because Bailey understood that the conventional airline model doesn't work in the islands. He set Aurigny up as a flexible "bush flying" operation with minimal overheads. The rot set in when Guernsey States started to push towards being an airline because they wanted it to safeguard their Gatwick route. The inevitable result was that Aurigny went down the pan like all the other conventional airlines and Guernsey nationalised it. The current management openly state that their primary objective is to safeguard the Gatwick route and nothing else really matters. However they have not learned from history and their conventional airline approach is working just as well as all those that have gone before!