Whoever came up with those routes does not have a sound commercial knowledge, a rule of thumb is that at least one airport of the two needs to be a mainstream player and whilst ACI serving an island puts it in a slightly different category it is not a mainstream player such as JER and GCI whilst with ACI's limited facilities aircraft types and ranges are restricted.
ACI/SOU is perfect, the people who work at Aurigny or SOU may suggest how many of that route's passengers jump straight on a train heading towards London, Air Alderney could have come up with BOH as an alternative, OK BOH doesn't have a rail station but if they could undercut Aurigny on fares they might get a few passengers but coming up with a route to Lee-on-Solent ... Come on, stop messing us around and admit that this is a schoolboy project!
And as for Shoreham-by-Sea, being an ex West Sussex dweller I think that they are reckoning upon ESH being a viable alternative to London/Gatwick and London itself ... Trust me, it's not, Brighton City Airways liked to believe that and they are history and if Air Alderney continue with the mentality of another schoolboy project then they shall soon be history also.
Last edited by Harry Wayfarers; 24th Oct 2017 at 11:25.