Aurigny Air Services
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It would be interesting to know what work they are doing on G-SAYE. Is it more than a routine maintenance?
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Can't think very much work is being done on G-SAYE. If someone has been working on it almost every day since April, maintenance must be costing a fortune! Having aircraft that are hangar-bound for weeks on end is NOT the way to make money. (Consider the history of G-SAYE and G-LGIS.) One can only wonder whether the States of Guernsey's "interest" in the airline obviates the need for management to think too carefully about being over-profitable.
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You'll find it has been in the hangar most of that time. It was certainly inside at the beginning of the week. Perhaps when you saw it the poor thing had been brought outside for some air...
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I don't understand why they went with Dornier aircraft in the first place? Why couldn't they purchase the more reliable Viking Twin Otter 400? Even the earlier second hand market Twin Otter 300 would be a worthy contender? Just goes to show how cack handed the states of Guernsey are! 
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I don't understand why they went with Dornier aircraft in the first place? Why couldn't they purchase the more reliable Viking Twin Otter 400? Even the earlier second hand market Twin Otter 300 would be a worthy contender? Just goes to show how cack handed the states of Guernsey are!
The real question I think is why weren't Aurigny allowed to order 3 new Dorniers in the first place, rather than one new one and two 30 year old a/c. G-OAUR seems reliable, but probably wasn't scheduled to be operating today.
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I thought that the Twin Otters engines couldn't handle the short cycles required for the ACI routes.
The real question I think is why weren't Aurigny allowed to order 3 new Dorniers in the first place, rather than one new one and two 30 year old a/c. G-OAUR seems reliable, but probably wasn't scheduled to be operating today.
The real question I think is why weren't Aurigny allowed to order 3 new Dorniers in the first place, rather than one new one and two 30 year old a/c. G-OAUR seems reliable, but probably wasn't scheduled to be operating today.
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I thought that the Twin Otters engines couldn't handle the short cycles required for the ACI routes.
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I'm booked to fly Alderney-Southampton (where I'm catching a connection up to NCL) in September. Reading this forum I'm beginning to wish I'd booked to take the ferry back to Guernsey and flown Flybe / BlueIslands from there!
AUR operated 2 DHC6 a/c some time ago - I think that it was late '80s or early 90s. They gave up on them after a few years & the reason stated was that the short flights & the sea air gave them operational problems. I am not a mechanic, so,I don't really understand what those problems were. But, the airline definitely had a problem with the a/c & the engines - enough to take them out of service.
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AUR operated 2 DHC6 a/c some time ago - I think that it was late '80s or early 90s. They gave up on them after a few years & the reason stated was that the short flights & the sea air gave them operational problems. I am not a mechanic, so,I don't really understand what those problems were. But, the airline definitely had a problem with the a/c & the engines - enough to take them out of service.
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AUR operated 2 DHC6 a/c some time ago - I think that it was late '80s or early 90s. They gave up on them after a few years & the reason stated was that the short flights & the sea air gave them operational problems. I am not a mechanic, so,I don't really understand what those problems were. But, the airline definitely had a problem with the a/c & the engines - enough to take them out of service.
I think Aurigny are just poor at sourcing in the right aircraft for the job, hopefully at some point BN will come out with a NG of the Trislander, but in my opinion the Twin Otter is the best out there for these sort of operations :
As I said, I am not a mechanic, but what I said was what I heard from AUR at the time. I take the point about LOG & Barra; & the Isles of Scilly operation , too. These two airlines' operations would tend to suggest that AUR's reason for rejecting the DHC6 was totally counter to their experiences of the a/c. Another piece of info. I heard about AUR not choosing to replace the BN3 with the DHC6 was that the crosswind limits were not very good.
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Thinking about it, some of todays problem may have been with a lack of available crew rather than servicable a/c. G-LGIS was on the apron at ACI for a few hours without any obvious work being done on it (at least from the webcam view).