Aurigny Air Services-2
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: UK
Posts: 406
Originally Posted by aurigny72
I agree that a daily service GCI-SEN is probably to much, especially with the new LHR-GCI service as well. I would have thought 3/4 times weekly on the SEN route would have been enough for the Summer. What is more crazy is that Blue Islands is intending to continue the GCI-SEN throughout the winter at the same daily frequency, unless they change their mind a lot of money will be lost on that and also on the Aurigny GCI- STN service. I do believe that Blue Islands is trying to get Aurigny to drop that route, lets hope they have got deep pockets, time will tell.
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Under Red One
Age: 72
Posts: 161
Aurigny r not umreliable, they just try to fly all timetabled flights to the advertise destination despite the delays rather than cancel at the drop of hat.
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: jersey
Age: 70
Posts: 1,102
Originally Posted by Expressflight
The load factor for June was 46% unless there were any cancelled flights I'm not aware of. There seems to have been a large increase in capacity on GCI-LON this year and the decision to fly GCI-SEN daily seemed strange to me.
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: rochford essex
Posts: 46
Originally Posted by Jerbourg
I'm hearing whispers that STN is to be dropped from the schedule, if this is true it seems that maybe the new Flybe & Blue Islands routes to LHR & SEN have eaten away at the passenger loads..
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: jersey
Age: 70
Posts: 1,102
Originally Posted by bmaviscount
Take it back the SEN flight was packed last Friday!
Great airport to depart from
Check un lady said it had been popular with a mix of business and leisure
Great airport to depart from
Check un lady said it had been popular with a mix of business and leisure
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: London
Posts: 80
why do Aurigny run their inter-island services and Southampton services at the same time as blue islands ; surely this is not sustainable??
Why not a higher frequency Dornier service
Were these routes simply to use G Huet?
Anyone know about loads?
Why not a higher frequency Dornier service
Were these routes simply to use G Huet?
Anyone know about loads?
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: This side of Heaven
Posts: 212
Originally Posted by bmaviscount
why do Aurigny run their inter-island services and Southampton services at the same time as blue islands ; surely this is not sustainable??
Why not a higher frequency Dornier service
Were these routes simply to use G Huet?
Anyone know about loads?
Why not a higher frequency Dornier service
Were these routes simply to use G Huet?
Anyone know about loads?
How long it two airlines can compete like this remains to be seen. It happened before when Jersey European took on KLM UK. They didn't compete for all that long.
Yes, the route has utilized G-HUET, but at times an ATR72 is used.
Loads have been good. I was told this at check-in at SOU a few weeks ago. Some have been full. Very attractive fares have been offered, at £19.99 well below LGW prices.
Join Date: May 2014
Location: Under Red One
Age: 72
Posts: 161
With FlyBE reportedly pulling the JER EMA service would it be worth Aurigny making EMA GCI JER a triangular route. I flew GCI EMA 14 Sep ....it was quite full but I don’ think this is usual. Might be worth a try.
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Join Date: Nov 2016
Location: This side of Heaven
Posts: 212
Both G-OAUR and G-LGIS were in the hangar (along with G-VZON) this afternoon. G-OAUR was last in service on the 6th. Both are undergoing maintenance. To create space G-SAYE was moved outside. (Don't know why they are hanging on to this fairly useless frame.) All Dornier flights were operated by G-ETAC today which meant cancelling services to SOU or running others at different times. Alderney residents are bound to have their own thoughts.
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: UK
Posts: 148
Thanks for the comments. I have wondered why they acquired G-SAYE in the first place as it is a lower spec a/c than G-LGIS (it has a lower MTOW, hence reduced capacity). It seems to me as well that if they need 2 a/c operational every day to offer the ACI service, then relying on a 31 year old a/c as part of a fleet of 3 is perhaps being a little optimistic. I guess that they should have bought 3 new a/c once they had decided on the move to Dorniers, but perhaps they weren't allowed to do so.
Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: UK
Posts: 148
G-OAUR is still out of service after 1 month. This seems like rather a long time for routine maintenance on a relatively new a/c - I wonder what the problem is. G-LGIS is also out of service for 4 days, so they must be having problems there as well.
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: jersey
Age: 70
Posts: 1,102
Originally Posted by Hermite
G-OAUR is still out of service after 1 month. This seems like rather a long time for routine maintenance on a relatively new a/c - I wonder what the problem is. G-LGIS is also out of service for 4 days, so they must be having problems there as well.
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Europe
Posts: 1,969
From what I gather, the Alderney schedule requires a single ACI-based airframe with 4x daily flights to GCI and 2x daily flights to SOU. Which means that Aurigny has three Dornier 228s to cover a schedule that requires a single airframe. So effectively they have the luxury of having two spares in the hangar? So it should be no surprise that examples are not to be seen for a considerable time. Or am I missing something here?
