Blue Islands
 

Notice BI have finally allowed booking from GCI to LCY on there booking portal; would be great if timings allowed twice daily access. Anyone know how the route is doing?
Also noticed last Sunday 4 Jetstreams lying idle on stands when flying through both GCI and JER. Low utilisation?

Three out of four JS fly all day Mon to Fri. Weekends are less busy but 2 JS fly Sat am and 3 fly Sun pm. Certainly not underutilised!!!!

They do hardly anything at the w/e - the Trislander doesn't fly at all on a Saturday and you will see most a/c parked up for a large proportion of the w/e. You only have to look at the Departures board to see that they ARE grossly underutilised for 2 days out of 7.

Maybe it saves money? Although a/c don't make money sitting on the ground, i suppose if the flight was fairly empty, it would lose more.

Daily flights to Manchester from Jersey Via Guernsey now bookable on blue islands website.

New direct route to Manchester - Jersey News from ITV Channel Television - channelonline.tv

I think I would rather fly in a modern Flybe Dash than that ancient ATR G-DRFC that will no doubt operate the service (G-ISLF is fully utilsed on the Swiss & LCY routes).

Blue Island new routes
 

After receiving the news - in form of an e-mail - I checked out the new routes - MAN - JER-GCI and vv and they were not loaded into their booking engine , and before you comment :) I did check the flights in November , so I guess that potential customers will be a happy at the news , and then a tad annoyed at no opportunity to take advantage of the GBP 49 per segment !

Blue Island new routes
 

The routes are loaded now and showing £49 fares.. I'll be using it from Manchester this winter for one and hope its a great success ! Good Luck to Blue Islands.

Schedules
 

As its a 09:25 dep ex GCI and I can't see how there will be an ATR in position, can we assume this is a Jetstream flight, unless they are going back to the good old D0328? 1:30 from JER to MAN would presume something a little quicker than the jetstream

Did a mock booking and it is down as an ATR, so I assume that will be their Old ATR42 300, as the newer 500 is on the LCY and Swiss flights and the 300 just operates a few inter-island flights and the odd SOU run when the demand is higher.

Another Jetstream?
 

Not sure if its an addition to the fleet or covering maintainance but understand G-FARA J31 left Cranfield on a Blue Island call sign yesterday

Or are they getting rid of G-JIBO?

GISLB is going for major check & poss repaint so I guess G-FARA is to cover it's absence

Well done
 

Well done to all at Blue Island for returning back to Bournemouth airport

Please do some advertising at the airport as theres currently 60 people sat in arrivals and nothing advertising anything.

Bournemouth Airport has not even announced it on there facebook page

It'll last only as long a the incentives offered by BOH's owners last!

No more GCI-ACI?
 

From the UK CAA Official Record Series 2 no. 2020

LICENCE REVOKED

Reference Item

GTB 102 Issued to Blue Islands Limited to operate a scheduled passenger service between Guernsey and Alderney

Aurigny 1 Blue Island 0?

"Aurigny 1 Blue Islands 0"

I don't really think so as Blue Islands are a commercial enterprise and "Aurignyflot" are the state airline of the Poilitbureau sorry States of Guernsey.

It would take a lot of explainiing if one of the few remaining State owned Airlines in Europe stopped providing a socially essential air service

Just wait till Aurigny goes tits up as it surely must. Try explaining why schools and hospital wards must close in GCI whilst Malcolm Hart continues to squander millions of taxpayers' money! There won't be queues of airlines vying to operate the ACI services then either. Derek Coates threw bucket loads of money at ACI but the resident ingrates threw it back in his face hence the two fingers. Aurigny is a dead duck beyond repair in its current form and the routes should be left to profitable carriers. The GCI States could save squillions by ceasing to act like an African republic with an un-neccessary national flag carrier.

I hear there is a possibilty of routing the manchester flight through Bournemouth

SI routing MAN via BOH
 

Do you really think they would do that ? I can't help thinking that they wouldn't want to upset the relationship with FlyBe at Southampton with a competing route out of Bournemouth :=

You hear wrong! Not even the kids in charge would try that one! LCY and MAN are the nearest thing to grown-up airline stuff that BCI has ever seen! No way they will dare muck that up!