The Jersey-Caen route coincided with the States of Jersey opening a tourist office in the centre of Caen. Neither lasted long.

For some up to date news I hear Guernsey has suspended its air bridge with Isle of Man as they have 7 new cases of Covid 19

The island must be going stir crazy !

Must've just happened as 2 flights to IOM are still showing on airport website for tomorrow (Sat)

In other news I see that AUR have been to LGW today (who ever thought 7 months ago that that would be news!)

I think that it was the Isle of Man that suspended the link, due to a surge in Guernsey Covid cases.

Wycombe

The 2 flights operating Sat are repatriation flights for IOM residents on holiday here in Guernsey and for Guernsey holidaymakers in IOM.
All the half term flights have been Cancelled due to rising Covid cases in Guernsey.
I'm sure that the returning IOM residents will have to do an unexpected 14 days self isolation on there return. The returning Guernsey residents wont.

I've been reading of a plan for Guernsey to substantially open up without quarantine or testing on 1st July 2021 but have no idea if this is just the fantasy of some hoteliers
https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/tourism/guernsey-aims-for-unrestricted-summer-travel

Does GCI really expect air travel to open up to flights to/from airports like Gatwick on this date, with little or no barriers in the form of quarantine, testing, vaccine passports or other paperwork ? If so, why is there very little noise amongst airlines (eg Eastern or Loganair or maybe even BACF) opening new routes for S21, compared to Gibraltar or Newquay ? The runway is short but it's still capable of sub-100 seat aircraft without a major performance penalty

There is a political intention , as expressed by the Chief Minister yesterday, to open up the borders by July, but I don’t know how that is going to be achieved. In fact, I don’t know if he quite knows what the details of this policy will be, yet.

davidjohnson6 and kcockayne, the Civil Contingencies Authority of the States has announced that it will re-introduce country and regional travel categories from 23 April https://www.gov.gg/reintroducecategories

Reading between the lines it is likely that for the moment most or all of the UK will fall into Category 2, reintroduced on 14 May:

So most travellers from the UK will likely have to self-isolate for 18-36hrs (depending on the time it takes to get the PCR result back), paying £25 for each test. Hardly an entirely straight-forward exercise but equally probably less onerous than much of the world, so we can expect a reasonable up-tick - and presumably as airlines hear of the new rules, some confirmed dates for summer '21 ops.

Based on the way Aurigny is scaling back flights for August I don't think it's going to make much difference anyway... August was originally down for 4 daily LGW rotations but some days they have scaled back down to 1 while other days are showing as up to 4 still and there have been cuts to the planned SOU and MAN schedules.

Don't know if they are slowly working their way through reducing the schedule due to lack of demand or if this is to facilitate any air bridge flights as the suggestion is the first GCI - IOM flights will be 27 and 31 May.

Interesting people thinking about IOM airbridge. They did it last year based on the fact both islands had the same border restrictions IE everyone was isolating for 14days on arrival. IOM only just today come out of lockdown and from May 14th Guernsey plan to allow to let people arrive from regions with less than 30 cases per 100,000 (which most of the uk currently is) arrive test on arrival and then once negative roam free with no restrictions. Not sure IOM will go with that.

Having had a look at the timetable in a bit more detail it would suggest the Gatwick flights have been pulled / reduced mainly around times when the Embraer is probably on Aston Martin F1 duties. However there are also large holes in the ATR schedules at times.

As for the AirBridge, the IOM was happy for it to operate when we went down to 7 day isolation over the summer last year. The landing paperwork you had to fill in for arrival had a section that you had to sign to confirm that you had not been outside the IOM or Bailiwick of Guernsey in the previous 14 days - If the case numbers get too high in Guernsey the IOM will probably pull it with immediate effect and send the Guernsey people home again I should imagine.

As will Guernsey with the IOM pax if cases rise there

Chief Minister in IOM has publicly stated he wants to see the Air Bridge back soon.

How do we think the new BACF LCY and EDI routes will fair? Bandwagon for staycations this year only or to become annual seasonal regulars?

If BA advertise this well it will be a winner with islanders heading north - the BA name carries alot of sway compared to Blue Islands & Aurigny (forget that they have pulled the plug on GCI a few times).

VickersVicount

Hard to do staycations to Guernsey when you still need to isolate on Arrival

I thought the plan is for Guernsey to be largely open door to the UK from 1st July 2021 ?

guern123

Isolation should be gone in July

From Friday some areas of the UK will be classified as Green which will mean test on arrival and isolate until clear test result. See Press release Travel to Guernsey from 14 May 2021

VickersVicount

Calm down it's a seasonal twice a week route on an aircraft with 95 seats.

You'd think BA were launching a 3 daily Edinburgh to LAX service

I'm sure BA yield management and route development have a better idea than us airline SIM players.

​​​​​​People quick to drag down local airports. Seem to remember people giving Qatar and Turkish 6 months.

Lufthansa been serving Edinburgh for 18 years