Aurigny Air Services-2
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 !
Would the last person to leave the country please switch the lights off.
Interesting to see that Aurigny has applied for 56 weekly slots at LHR, https://www.acl-uk.org/wp-content/up...PORT-FINAL.pdf (page 4)
but have been turned down. The only way this route will work is to have an airline that has an alliance of some sort to give travellers onward connectivity - Virgin Connect (if they stay on the GCI/LHR route) are the only option. This is another money wasting exercise by Aurigny management who seem to want all the London market for themselves and is not what their owners the GCI public want at all.
but have been turned down. The only way this route will work is to have an airline that has an alliance of some sort to give travellers onward connectivity - Virgin Connect (if they stay on the GCI/LHR route) are the only option. This is another money wasting exercise by Aurigny management who seem to want all the London market for themselves and is not what their owners the GCI public want at all.
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Interesting to see that Aurigny has applied for 56 weekly slots at LHR, https://www.acl-uk.org/wp-content/up...PORT-FINAL.pdf (page 4)
but have been turned down. The only way this route will work is to have an airline that has an alliance of some sort to give travellers onward connectivity - Virgin Connect (if they stay on the GCI/LHR route) are the only option. This is another money wasting exercise by Aurigny management who seem to want all the London market for themselves and is not what their owners the GCI public want at all.
but have been turned down. The only way this route will work is to have an airline that has an alliance of some sort to give travellers onward connectivity - Virgin Connect (if they stay on the GCI/LHR route) are the only option. This is another money wasting exercise by Aurigny management who seem to want all the London market for themselves and is not what their owners the GCI public want at all.
Pretty sure GCI-LHR would work on point to point alone to be fair, just make sure there's a LHR premium charged to make sure the margin are possible. Self connecting is becoming more popular, any code share would be a plus, but I suspect the local market would be strong on it's own. It would however likely cannibalise LGW to some extent.
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Very interesting indeed - especially as Aurigny, in their anti-Flybe Heathrow rhetoric, were allegedly claiming that they had offered the States of Guernsey to also run the Heathrow route if given a subsidy, ( reportedly 2 m quid a year ).
How can they propose that - if they had no chance of getting slots ! Because looking through that list, I can see that hardly anyone got extra slots !
How can they propose that - if they had no chance of getting slots ! Because looking through that list, I can see that hardly anyone got extra slots !
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Aurigny currently have 5 ATR's in the fleet. Even with the 195 in for maintenance, this leaves more than enough aircraft to operator their full schedule.
Any idea why they have chartered in an additional ATR which is flying the LGW flight at the moment. Surely this isn't going to help their ever increasing debts.
Any idea why they have chartered in an additional ATR which is flying the LGW flight at the moment. Surely this isn't going to help their ever increasing debts.
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They have enough of their own ATR's without getting in another one (unless some of them are off line). Whenever I look at their schedules, there is never more than 4 aircraft flying at one time (excluding the dorniers) so why do they need to pay out for a 6th ATR?
A friend told me that there were three Aurigny ATR's sat on the ground this afternoon (2 x 72 1 x 42) the leased example was flying to/from LGW.
Aurigny currently have one more ATR in the fleet than at the beginning of December G-OGFC arrived to replace G-VZON which is still in service so I do not think that the leased ATR is to cover the Embraer which is away on maintenance. If I was a betting man I'd place my money on ATR crew shortages.
If there are any GR bods reading this they may like to comment....
Aurigny currently have one more ATR in the fleet than at the beginning of December G-OGFC arrived to replace G-VZON which is still in service so I do not think that the leased ATR is to cover the Embraer which is away on maintenance. If I was a betting man I'd place my money on ATR crew shortages.
If there are any GR bods reading this they may like to comment....
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Yes she with us at NWI undergoing heavy maintenance with KLM UK Engineering, nice catch for us up here cheers
any chance of the new ATRs appearing at LGW 11th be nice as i,m popping south for a trip
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Blue Islands...Guernsey-Jersey & Southampton
Relating to the Blue Islands thread this week, but I'll post it here as it relates directly to Aurigny...
Noted this week, some of the inter-island flights as well as GCI-SOU have been operated by Dornier a/c (G-LGIS). Wonder how pax reacted to this instead of the usual ATR42 or 72? One thing is clear: Aurigny are not selling many seats on the routes if flights can be downgraded to Do.228. Comments on the Blue Islands thread indicate generally good loads on the GCI-SOU route with an ATR72 fairly full. The GR Dornier by contrast has 18 seats.
Relating to the Blue Islands thread this week, but I'll post it here as it relates directly to Aurigny...
Noted this week, some of the inter-island flights as well as GCI-SOU have been operated by Dornier a/c (G-LGIS). Wonder how pax reacted to this instead of the usual ATR42 or 72? One thing is clear: Aurigny are not selling many seats on the routes if flights can be downgraded to Do.228. Comments on the Blue Islands thread indicate generally good loads on the GCI-SOU route with an ATR72 fairly full. The GR Dornier by contrast has 18 seats.
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Blue Islands...Guernsey-Jersey & Southampton
Relating to the Blue Islands thread this week, but I'll post it here as it relates directly to Aurigny...
Noted this week, some of the inter-island flights as well as GCI-SOU have been operated by Dornier a/c (G-LGIS). Wonder how pax reacted to this instead of the usual ATR42 or 72? One thing is clear: Aurigny are not selling many seats on the routes if flights can be downgraded to Do.228. Comments on the Blue Islands thread indicate generally good loads on the GCI-SOU route with an ATR72 fairly full. The GR Dornier by contrast has 18 seats.
Relating to the Blue Islands thread this week, but I'll post it here as it relates directly to Aurigny...
Noted this week, some of the inter-island flights as well as GCI-SOU have been operated by Dornier a/c (G-LGIS). Wonder how pax reacted to this instead of the usual ATR42 or 72? One thing is clear: Aurigny are not selling many seats on the routes if flights can be downgraded to Do.228. Comments on the Blue Islands thread indicate generally good loads on the GCI-SOU route with an ATR72 fairly full. The GR Dornier by contrast has 18 seats.
The Dorniers are ideal for a higher frequency service , especially inter- island There is nothing mid morning or mid afternoon JER GCI or back
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I guess the leased ATR and the use of the Dornier 228 on Guernsey-Jersey is down to a lack of ATR crew due to the Embraer being away on maintenance and the ATR crew having to operate all Gatwick flights.