Aurigny Air Services-2
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How about some of the following:
- risk-management with regard to serving a very busy one-runway airport (LGW) vs. an idyllic regional airport (SOU)
- better in-time performance
- less risk to pay for passenger rights compensation
- learning from the Ryanair rulebook
- risk-management with regard to serving a very busy one-runway airport (LGW) vs. an idyllic regional airport (SOU)
- better in-time performance
- less risk to pay for passenger rights compensation
- learning from the Ryanair rulebook
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GCILover - The scheduled times are gate to gate not landing and take-off. Don't know the reason for SOU 55min timings but for LGW at peak times (which is for much of the day) you can expect to queue for at least 15 mins at the runway holding point before take-off. Add this to the pushback and taxi time and it could be 30mins plus from pushback to airborne. Arrivals are often slot constrained at origin which could mean 10 - 15 min delay leaving GCI to LGW. Add on a few times around the holding stack before being vectored in sequence for landing and the gate to gate time adds up. Of course the times will differ slightly depending on if it's an ATR or the E190 doing the flight. One of the down sides I'm afraid of maximising capacity on the busiest single runway airport in the world.
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AFAIK G-LERE is staying on as it's the newest ATR and will be a spare a/c to cover maintenance of others. Advance schedules suggest few changes, so for the time being four ATRs will be needed.
For such a small airline they are lucky to be able to afford to have ' a spare aircraft' to cover maintenance.
Surely it would be cheaper to lease in as & when required.
Surely it would be cheaper to lease in as & when required.
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I remember that when DUS airport tried to push out turboprop operators after the fire in the 1990s, citing limited capacity, the airport was taken to court and lost. Public facility etc. etc.
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GOATR Delivery Flight
New ATR GOATR due to arrive from Toulouse at GCI 1645 this pm 25Oct.
Pete
Now disappeared into Anglo-Normandy hangar
Pete
Now disappeared into Anglo-Normandy hangar
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Why no guernsey related reg like G SMPS
What will be different in flying the 600 series?
And lastly the Aurigny puffin has bern replaced by a stylised Guernsey Flag
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The a/c does seem rather young to require a new wing. Did they damage it in some way?
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https://www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraft/se-mda
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I can't see a time when there are more than 3 ATR's flying at the same time. Why didn't Aurigny pre-plan this so that the remaining 2 ATR 72's and the 42 could cover the rest of the flying without the cost of leasing an additional aircraft. From what is being said, the 42 rarely goes out to capacity
Rumour doing the rounds at the moment is that Isles of Scilly Skybus will be operating ACI routes for Aurigny from sometime next week, this is due to ongoing issues with the Dornier fleet.
https://www.itv.com/news/channel/201...e-plane-a-day/
https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/...lderney-route/
https://www.itv.com/news/channel/201...e-plane-a-day/
https://guernseypress.com/news/2019/...lderney-route/
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G-NSEY diverted to SOU this morning instead of going to LGW due to fog. Apparently all other flights into LGW were operating normally. Any ideas as to why Aurigny felt it necessary to divert?
With the most fertile imagination in the world, you could not make up the script for AUR’s current saga ! Nor could you ever imagine the complete ineptitude of the States of Guernsey’s attempts at running an airline & subsidizing it’s competitors operations , whilst expecting their own airline to make a profit. The whole issue is a complete farce !