I,ll buy one ..hopefully the airport shop will stock it so I can pick one up when I visit for cheap fuel ??a great islandmany happy memories.
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Airport Shop
Yeah airport shop will hopefully stock them - very likely indeed - but I've got to contact Rose & Crown Pub who run the operation :ok: but as I say, there is a 90% chance they will.
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Cessna Grand Caravan 208 on Alderney Route(s)
How impractical would it it be to contemplate the Cessna Caravan equipped with 12, even 14 seats with baggage pod on a PSO route? Limited to VFR of course but the operational costs are superb. No problem with field performance either.
Still no hope of SE-IMC public transport ops on the horizon? Might actualy make money with that one. Forget anything bigger than the Twin Otter. |
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It's probably my mistake but I always thought that our friends :mad: at the CAA didn't approve of single-engined pax operations anymore? You're definetly right though, the Caravan would do a grand job :)
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Blue Islands to buy Aurigny
BBC are carrying a story that the States of Guernsey are giving serious thought to selling Aurigny to Blue Islands, operated by the Healthspan group it is easy to see that all direct flights to and from Alderney will cease and that every passenger will travel via Guernsey.
:ugh: BBC News - Aurigny Air Services could be sold to Blue Islands |
But the group that own Blue Islands prefer visitors to travel via Guernsey, I doubt the Alderney links are of much interest to them.
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Look at whats happened to BI in ACI since Healthspan took over. BOH,JER and St Brieuc all junked.
They'll kill ACI services by slow death and blame it on running out of serviceable trislanders with no replacement available. ACI-GCI-SOU. That'll be your routing for 2011. |
jetstreamtechrecords, frankly, I couldn't agree more... Coates is saying there is no obvious replacement. I saw as soon as he said this that he would use this as an excuse to pull an Alderney route. As a result, I find the prospect of a BI take over positively appalling. We need his assurance and someone needs to foil his 'cunning' plan...
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The only thing I have come up with so far is to put pressure on the States to ensure Guernsey do not sell off the Aurigny brand name, without that Healthspan will not have the monopoly and all the staff that will inevitably be laid off can form a management-reforming of the airline.
Does anyone know of an Twin Otters going spare? :) |
Twin Otters
All we need is a couple of Twotters, a couple of Islanders and a Dornier 228. As my nextdoor neighbour in Alderney told me once:
How do you become a millionaire? Become a billionaire, and start an airline :) |
The chaps from Canada who make the "new" Twotter are of course at Farnborough as I write!
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Momentum to object to the merger is gathering, there is a facebook page:
Say NO to Blue Islands/Aurigny merger | Facebook |
and a petition Say NO to Blue Islands/Aurigny merger
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The Alderney Journal are quoting Derek Coates as saying there's "no chance" of Blue Islands cutting Alderney's direct link to the UK..
Hmmm, ok. :suspect: |
Who wants to be a Millionaire
The following question is proposed for inclusion on Who Wants To Be a Millionaire:
Q: Why is it hard to trust Derek Coates when he says there is no chance of cutting a route? A: Because his airline has cut 14 routes since 2001. However, a scrutiny panel rubbished the question, deeming it far too easy. |
In defense of Healthspan, they may well have no intention of closing the Southampton route. But as a business they are not known for being Alderney-centric, try booking a room at their hotel in Alderney via their reservations office in Guernsey and you will see what I mean.
None of the proposed buy-out is about Alderney, even when the States of Guernsey bought Aurigny it had nothing to to with Alderney but was to protect the Guernsey to Gatwick route. So long as Bluerigny keep that up then Guernsey will be happy. As with all things Alderney has a 50% voice about what happens in Alderney and a 5% say when it comes to the Bailiwick. :{ |
theres loads of rubbish spoke down there about no replacement for the trislanders. we have had their replacement operating up here on IOM BLK BFS for 4 years. Its called the Let 410. Not fast or pretty but a Rolls Royce compared to the trislander. We got rid of the last trislander from Ronaldsway 5 years ago when even the newspapers complained about the noise.
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and the GECI International Skylander SK-105, the Trislander (new-build!!!!), the Dornier 228 (as seen at Manx2), the LET 410 (as seen at Manx2), the Fairchild Metroliner (for Jersey - Guernsey, as seen at Manx2). What a load of BS from Coates :(
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is just goes to prove what Coates & his accountant cronies know about the airline world - Sweet FA.
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Aurigny have been doing the odd day returns to Exeter this season, any reason for this? Are they testing the water with adhoc charters??
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