I notice an article in the Guernsey Press today quotes the chairman of Blue Islands, Derek Coates, about attempts to develop routes from Guernsey. For Jersey the article mentions that the airline is in the ‘advanced stages of discussion with the States of Jersey about opening new routes’.

I suppose these routes are likely to be the rumoured destinations like Zurich/Paris?

The Outcome
 

J-Guy
Some of these have been in the pipe line for a little while, there will be no surprises as you well know.
With the out come of the Guernsey-Sothampton application which was heard on Monday, as soon as they hear of the out come, I would expect the annocement of the other projects in the pipeline yto be confirmed.
Interesting times ahead within the Islands.

Jet 2 in Jer
 

Rumor here in BLK yesterday of a 3x weekly BLK or LBA-JER with aircraft then on to Paris?:confused: Any vibes youre end?:eek:

I see there is now confirmation from Blue Islands that they intend to launch three new European routes this year. According to the news Paris (Beauvais) is hoped to start within six weeks and Zurich and Geneva later in the year with larger aircraft.

I’m pleased to finally see their expansion plans begin to take form. The Swiss routes should be popular with the Island’s business community, but Beauvais I’m not so sure. The lack of an alternative for passengers bound for Paris may be an advantage for Blue Islands, however, Beauvais is still a fair distance from Paris and fares will not be cheap. It surprises me that the Twin Jet's Orly route has not been developed as a credible option for an improved Paris service.

All good for Jersey though. 2007 is definitely a turning point for the Island’s air-links.

Things have gone very quite from the Island, with a lot of things bubbling in the back ground but nothing boiling up.

I was led to believe the Paris route would have be annouced by now but nothing as yet, as well as a number of other routes like the following.

Any updates to these routes that have been kicked around?
Jersey to Blackpool or Leeds
Jersey to Zurich
jersey to Geneva
Jersey to Stansted was another route that was going to rise from the ashes with the intro of Thompson an the Daily Luton shortl I think the Stansted might be dead and berried?

There is a need for another operator on the Jersey - Newcastle route to compete with Flybe which is now reduced to once weekly.

Nothing much at the moment, a few minor changes but not anything particularly note worthy. Come on Blue Islands :zzz:

There is an additional Sunday VLM departure to London City at 11.30 in addition to a 17.00 flight operated by the F50 that comes down on Fridays.

Also, there is an extra Saturday Flybe Manchester flight, which had previously operated as a charter.

Stuttgart is definitely dropped. The tour operator website has been updated and Munich/Frankfurt will operate with a DH4, Hannover/Dusseldorf with an AT7.

Is there anything about a Helsinki charter this summer? The Airport newsletter said there was a possibility of one running after the popularity of last years. Would be nice but not sure if anything has come about?

VLM flights
The Friday inbound to Jersey and outbound on Sunday covers some of the VLM charters on the Saturday, this was done last year I think.

Ref the Helsinki this was just a one off charter last year so I do not think there is a series in the pipeline to run this summer so far, but who knows.

With the Summer charters kicking in at the end of this month I would think it is to late to start any new summer charters for 2007 but i could be wrong.

There still are things in the Jerseyairport.com pipe line from what I can make out.

Whatever happened to the aircraft and crew base that VLM had in Jersey. The JER-LCY is surely a route that would sustain two return flights a day. It is afterall linking two major financial centres. Why have VLM never even considered incorporating Guernsey into their network. I may be wrong but did VLM not hold the GCI-LCY licence a few years ago, but have simply never operated the route?

Shame there will not be a off-one again this year. It’s nice to be reminded of the times when there were charters from Scandinavia. :(

The base in Jersey was closed because it was not profitable. The figure quoted was something like a £1m loss. VLM’s loads were apparently good but competition from British Airways and Flybe meant that yields were poor. The route continues to operate at 1x daily but with even stronger competition between London and Jersey today, whether the route lasts is uncertain.

Paris is on
 

Jersey will have a connection with Paris shortly as quoted in the local paper today,although it will be to Beauvais it is near enough.:ok:
A deal has been struck between Jersey Airport and Blueislands and the service will start imminently what ever they mean by imminently one or two week or one or two months as we are well into May now.
Good news for Jersey to have another air service to France.:ok:

New security
 

So... the new security check point was due to open this morning. How did it go? I see the first LGWs and GCIs were delayed by around 15mins each, was this due to the new security or another problem?
Also what's up with Blue Islands this morning? The 0730 and 0805 flights are still boarding (and tis 0910)!

Same ad on two threads...

I thought advertising was not allowed?

What type of aircraft are we talking here??? Wouldn't be a certain DO328 operator would it???? :E

I wasn't writing an ad mate!
I was mearly spreading the word of a rumour i'd heard.
If people wanna go they gotta find out some how! :8

OK, it's just a rumour you heard in the bar, and you've no interest in promoting the flights. I'm sorry to have been so sceptical.

Pity, isn't it, that all rumours on pprune are not so accurate, detailed, complete and well-informed.

Gay Paris
 

lotman1000
Before you comment you should know the story.
You can only comment if it was bar talk which it is not.
Our company who will remain annon has been approached to operate and will fit in with both the Islands, so that could be why it appeared more than once. as this little number will fit in well with our weekend schedule as we have spare capicity.
The crew is looking at having a nice day out in bel France for a change.

Eff oh
No it is not a Dornier 328.

Could this be a tempter to operate a bit closer to Paris than the service due to start on Friday to Beauvais(Paris).
This might not be just for an air show it might lead to other things at least the Islands are trying to get new areas to operate and not stay stagnated like some other areas have in the past.:ok::ok:

hey all you spotters in Jersey, not an amazing photo opertunity, but Astraeus will be flying their newly wing-tipped B737-7 into Jersey this evening, arrives 17.00 depart 18.00 to Faro

Looking Forward
 

A couple of snippets.
With Scotair putting three of the D328s for sale and Blueislands getting on have Blueislands boughts it could they be in for more as they are going to annoce some more routes within the nest two to three weeks from what I can make out.
British Airways will be putting the Airbus 319 on the Gatwick in the future as the 737 fleet dwindles down, will this be before Flybe puts the EMB195 on the route I wonder?
There has been some mutterings going on that there might be a couple of more carriers interested in operating down to the Island, one of them might be Easyjet, they had talks a number of years ago with the airport but nothing came of it so are they showing an interest again?. Some routes that could be on the cards are Glasgow and Liverpool, we were hearing a few months ago that Stansted might come back, could this be one as well?

With flybe ending the LPL/Southampton route at the end of August the airline will only have the LPL/Jersey summer only route left exLPL.

I cannot see that route coming back next summer so its ready to receive EZY on the route whenever they are.