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Old 25th Sep 2011, 07:56
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When you go to the home page and then click FAQ's, you get an option to book flights at the top of the page and this is showing Alderrney in the menu. Not listed in the timetables yet, but looks as though Bournemouth is getting back all it's former routes.

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Old 25th Sep 2011, 10:05
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If you go back a few threads you will see that blue Islands dont fly to Alderney any more gave the route up a little while ago
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Old 25th Sep 2011, 11:36
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They gave up flying to BOH too & are now back.....
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Old 26th Oct 2011, 08:21
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Blue seem to be operating a much reduced inter island schedule this week, is this due to lack of demand or some other reason does anyone know?
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Old 26th Oct 2011, 17:54
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Probably something to do with the fact that it is half-term week and there are probably a lot less business travellers
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Old 27th Oct 2011, 09:50
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They didn't cut the schedule during the easter/summer holidays so I doubt it's that.
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Old 27th Oct 2011, 19:09
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The reduced shedule is here to stay for the forseeable future, Trislanders will now only fly 2 return inter-island sectors a day - good crew utilisation there!
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Split duty I guess - nice!
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Old 1st Nov 2011, 12:06
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No wonder there is a reduced service. I thought it would be quite nice to pop back to any of the channel islands with a flight from Southampton. They are having a laugh are they not with the prices - either in the short term or well ahead bookings.....heck I can go anywhere in Europe return for the prices quoted..and the channel islands are not that good!

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Old 1st Nov 2011, 13:21
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Can anyone inform the load factor on todays first Bournemouth services?
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Old 1st Nov 2011, 13:53
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& also on the first JER-MAN too?
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Old 1st Nov 2011, 14:34
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London City is down to once daily for the winter, was that the plan? Not competitive against BE and BA as there's no day return option.
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Old 1st Nov 2011, 21:09
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once a day only on Sunday.
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Old 2nd Nov 2011, 10:01
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once a day only on Sunday.
Cool, the LCY page is misleading me! Good news then, thanks.
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Old 11th Nov 2011, 10:38
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Trislander Fleet Closing

Rumour today that all Trislander pilots have been made redundant from 4th December.

With the Trislander scheduled to do up to 7 inter island rotations a day, that's a lot of capacity going, or something else (another Jetsream?) coming to replace it. But if you were replacing it wouldn't you keep and retrain the crew?

All Trislander flights still on sale through December.

Anybody know what's happening?
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Old 11th Nov 2011, 10:58
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Allegedly Blue Islands have listened to their passengers; they have said that they don't want to fly on Tris and therefore BI are selling them off and consequently the crews have been given notice.

It goes on to say that these passengers also don't like single crew on Tris as their competitors practice.

A few months ago the ground crew were told they were to embark on a new adventure or some similar romantic imagery; aka given the boot.

It's all part of the MD's idiom.

Read between the lines......
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Old 11th Nov 2011, 17:51
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Blue took on 2/3 new Tri crew in the last month, it looks as tho they have been thrown on the scrap heap already. The MD certainly knows how to mess with peoples lives, not that he gives a thought to them. Personally I think the reason that Blue have ditched the Tris, are a) the fall in inter island pax due to many pax switching to Gr & b) the continual tech problems with the aircraft. I also believe that one Capt. recently resigned on the spot because he was so fed up with all the continual snags. Also heard today that Blue maybe ditching GCI-SOU, can anyone confirm or deny this?

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Old 11th Nov 2011, 19:00
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They've ditched everything else that doesn't originate in Jersey, so GCI-SOU going would just be the last in a long line of Guernsey services dumped. Seems quite logical on that basis. Good news for flybe.
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Trislanders sold as Blue Islands listens to passengers - Business News | businesslife.co
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Old 12th Nov 2011, 17:43
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I heard a rumour that the contract with the GCI handling agent had been renegotiated down from 12 months to 6, if true this would mean that the contract would end Dec 31. This in turn could/would also signal the end of all GCI services....
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